Art Institute of Chicago
Helmet Mask (Bwoom)
Kuba · Possibly late 19th to mid-20th century
Provenance
Ownership history
- Peter Loebarth, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Belgium, by late 1970s; sold to Jacques Hautelet, Brussels, Belgium, and La Jolla, Calif., during late 1970s [personal communication documented in curatorial file, 10/6/2013]; sold to the Art Institute, 1982.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Francois Neyt, Arts Traditionnels et Histoire au Zaire (Bruxelles, 1981), pp. 160, fig. 8.
- Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 61, pp. 150-151.
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