Horn

1. Raoul Blondiau, Brussels, Belgium, by 1925 [acquired between 1900 to 1925 according to Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection, exh. cat., 1927]; sold to Theatre Arts, Inc. (Theatre Arts Monthly), New York, N.Y., Nov. 1926 [according to Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection, exh. cat.1927; Deacon 1981]; sold to the Art Institute, 1928.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, The New Art Circle, Bondiau-Theatre Arts Collection of Primitive African, Feb. 7-March 5, 1927, cat. no. 156 (not illustrated).
• Children’s Museum at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Negro in Art Week: Primitive and Modern, lent by Harlem Museum of African Art [Blondiau Collection of African Art], Nov. 16-Dec. 1, 1927, cat. 3 (ill.); traveled to Rochester, N.Y., the Memorial Art Gallery.
• Iowa, Junior Art Museum of Des Moines, Baga to Batabwo: Safari in Art, Oct. 19–Dec. 9, 1958.
• West Lafayette, Ind., Purdue University Department of Creative Arts, African Art, April 6-28, 1970.

• Alain Locke. Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection of Primitive African Art (introduction), exh. cat. (New York: The New Art Circle/Theater Arts Monthly, 1927), cat. no. 156.
• Alain Locke. "A Collection of Congo Art" in The Arts 11, 2 (1927), pp. 61-70 (ill.).
• Harlem Museum of African Art, The Negro in Art Week: Nov. 16 -23, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1927), cat. 3 (ill.).
• Helen F. MacKenzie. “A Group of Primitive Carvings in Wood and Horn,” in Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 24, 1 (Jan. 1930.) p. 8-9, 6 (object mentioned, illustrated p. 16).
• Richard F. Townsend and Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “The Art Institute of Chicago New Galleries for African Art and Indian Art of the Americas,” in Tribal Arts XVI:1, 62 (Winter 2011), p. 60, fig. 3.
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “Changing Place, Changing Face: A History of African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display, ed. Katheleen Bickford Berzock and Christa Clarke (University of Washington Press, 2010), pp. 150-167 (ill. fig 7.3).
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 58, pp. 144-145 (ill.).

Helmet Mask (Mukenga)

Art Institute of Chicago

Female Face Mask (Ngady Mwaash)

Art Institute of Chicago

Helmet Mask (Bwoom)

Art Institute of Chicago

Panel

Art Institute of Chicago

Belt (Yeemy Mambolmashet)

Art Institute of Chicago

Cup

Art Institute of Chicago

Pendant

Art Institute of Chicago

Pendant Belt (Nkody Mupaap)

Art Institute of Chicago

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