Half Figure (Nlo Byeri)

1. Ladislas Segy (L. Szecsi; died 1988), Segy Art Gallery, New York, N.Y., by 1952 [published in Segy 1952, fig. no. 80 and documented in Affinities of Form, 1996, p. 216]; sold to Raymond Wielgus (died 2010) and Laura Wielgus (died 2003), Chicago, Ill., from 1955 [Affinities of Form, 1996, pg. 216]; given to the Art Institute, 1958.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, African Art: Collection of Raymond Wielgus, April 13–June 16, 1957, cat. 31.
• Milwaukee, Wis., Layton School of Art, African Sculpture: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wielgus, Jan. 3-Feb. 9, 1957, cat. 33.
• Denver Art Museum, Art of Africa, March 22-May 17, 1964 (no cat.).
• West Lafayette, Ind., Purdue University Department of Creative Arts, African Art, April 6-28, 1970, cat. 56.

• Ladislas Segy, African Sculpture Speaks (New York: A.A. Weyn, Inc. 1952), p. 192, figs. 80 and 81.
• Lasislas Segy. "African Names and Sulpture," Acta Tropica X, 4 (1953), pp. 19-309, fig. 3a and 3b.
• Alan R. Sawyer, African Art: Collection of Raymond Wielgus, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1957), n. pag., cat. 31.
• Allan Frumkin, African Sculpture: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wielgus, exh. cat, (Milwaukee, WI.: Layton School of Art, 1957), cat. 33.
• Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), n. pag., pl. 55.
• Ladislas Segy, African Sculpture Speaks, 3rd edition (New York: Hill and Wang, 1969), pp. 102 and 220, fig. 75.
• African Art, exh. cat. (Purdue University Department of Creative Arts, 1970), n. pag., cat. 56.
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock, "African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," African Arts 32, 4 (Winter 1999), pp. 26-27, fig. 11.
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 52, pp. 136-137 (ill.).

Eyema byeri (reliquary guardian figure)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nlô byeri (reliquary guardian head)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ngontang (young white girl) helmet mask

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Akam (Pluriarc)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Side-blown horn

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ink Tablet with Black Stag Motif

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mbejn

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dress

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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