Art Institute of Chicago
Female Figure
Nyamwezi · Early 20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Unnamed owner, Fundikira family, late 19th to early 20th century; by descent to Chief Abdallahi Saidi Fundikira III (died 2007), Tanzania, by 2007; by descent to his family, 2007. Sold to Christopher McKesson, Tanzania and East Lansing, Mich., 2008; consigned to Axis Gallery, West Orange, N.J. and Brooklyn, N.Y., by 2010; sold to unnamed owner, 2010 [as promised gift to the museum]; given to the Art Institute, 2012.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Gary van Wyk, "The Nyamwezi in the Context of the Art of Western Tanzania, in Shangaa: Art of Tanzania, exh. cat., Gary van Wyk, ed. (Queens Community College Art Gallery Press, 2013), pp. 256-257 (ill.).
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