Female Figure (Bateba Phuwe)

1. Eric Robertson, Robertson African Arts, New York, N.Y., by 1982 [this and the following according to object inventory card of R. Faletti, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Richard J. Faletti (died 2006), Faletti Family Collection, Phoenix, Az., Oct. 1982; given to the Art Institute, 2002.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Phoenix Art Museum, A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection, Dec. 13, 1997-Feb. 8, 1998, cat. 9; traveled to Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, May 14-June 28, 1998, Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sept. 18-Nov. 1, 1998, New York, N.Y., The Museum for African Art, Jan. 29-Mar. 28, 1999, Davenport Museum of Art, Apr. 18-June 13, 1999, New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Sept. 12-Nov. 24, 1999, and The Boise Art Museum, Feb. 26-May 7, 2000.
• Art Institute of Chicago, African Artistry: Gifts from the Faletti Family Collection, Oct. 5–May 18, 2003, Gallery 142, no. cat.

• Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts, A Sense of Wonder: African Art from the Faletti Family Collection (Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, 1997), pg. 62, fig. 9.
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 6, pp. 38-39.

Metal Inrō with Flower Medallions

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Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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Knife Handle (Kozuka)

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Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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Sword Guard (Tsuba)

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The Nantei Picture Album, Supplementary Volume (Nantei gafu kōhen) 楠亭画譜後篇

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Figure

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Figure: Colonial Male

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