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Container
Kongo · 18th/19th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Unknown private collection, Belgium, before 1960 [note in curatorial file specifies that the object had been in the collection since the colonial period]; [probably] Emanuel Ameloot, Gallery Ufundi, Gent, Belgium, before 2002; sold to Alex Arthur, Brussels, Belgium, before 2002; sold to Andrés Moraga, Berkeley, Calif., by 2002; sold to the Art Institute, 2003.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Vanessa Drake Moraga, Weaving Abstraction: Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa (Washington, D.C.: The Textile Museum, 2011), pp. 33.
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