Provenance
Leon Underwood (collected in Ogbomosho, Nigeria, 1945)
René d'Harnoncourt, New York
Private collection, United States
Alfred Scheinberg, New York
Selected Exhibition History
September 24-November 19, 1948, San Francisco, CA, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, African Negro Sculpture
October 21, 1954-January 2, 1955, Brooklyn, NY, The Brooklyn Museum, Masterpieces of African Art
September 20, 1989-January 7, 1990, New York, Centre for African Art, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought
November 7, 1991-March 8, 1992, Zurich, Switzerland, Museum Rietberg, Die Kunst der Yoruba
November 17, 2004-August 15, 2005, Washington, DC, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution,Treasures
June 20-December 9, 2012, Washington, DC, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, African Cosmos: Stellar Arts
Permanent Exhibition: National Museum for African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
[Acc. No. 88-1-1]
Selected Publication History
H.J. Drewal and J. Pemberton III, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, New York, 1989, cat 162
Eliot Elisofon and William Fagg, The Sculpture of Africa, New York, 1958, p 114, no 143
William Fagg, Nigerian Images, London, 1963, no 87
Christine Mullen Kreamer, African Cosmos: Stellar Arts Washington, D.C., 2012, pp 120-121, cat 7.9
Michel Leiris and Jacqueline Delange, African Art, London, 1968,
no 82
Frank Willet, African Art, 1985, New York, no 211