Female Face Mask (Mwana Pwo)

1. Helen and Mace Neufeld, Beverly Hills, CA; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, November 14, 1989, lot 279, to Ravi Kumar, Paris and New York [this and the following according to personal communication from Pace Primitive, dated May 22, 2013, documented in curatorial file; Pace Primitive inventory #54-0383]; sold on consignment by Pace Primitive, New York, NY, to John and Barbara Buxton, Shango Galleries, Dallas, TX, 1992 [Pace Primitive invoice #3501]; sold to the Art Institute, 1992.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Express, Images of African and African-American Art: A Self-Guided Tour (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), n.pag. fig. 3.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Africa Teacher Manual (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 64–65.
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), p. 132, fig. 2.

Mwanangana (lord of the land) playing a sanza

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Commemorative female figure

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Ngundja (royal seat)

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Ngundja (royal seat)

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Pwo (female) mask

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Kasengosengo (whistle)

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Kisaanji

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Tesa ya ma kanya (snuff mortar)

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