Male Face Mask (Chihongo)

1. Unknown private collection, Berlin, Germany, from c. 1912 [this and the following according to personal communication from J. Buxton dated June 13, 2003 and statement by Lisa Bradley dated Sept. 2003 documented in curatorial file; object report by Marie-Lousie Bastian, 1982, copy in curatorial file]; Dr. Wolfgang Nerlich (1928-2012), Munich, Germany, until early 1990s [personal communication with Pace Primitive dated May 22, 2013, documented in curatorial file]; sold to Pace Primitive, New York, N.Y., early 1990s [Pace Primitive inventory #53-0157]; sold to John and Barbara Buxton, Shango Galleries, Dallas, Tex., Oct. 1997 [Jordán 1998, no. 70; acquisition documentation in curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 2003.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Birmingham Museum of Art, Chokwe! Art and Initiation Among Chokwe and Related Peoples, Nov. 1, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999; traveled to Baltimore Museum of Art, June 13-Sep. 5, 1999; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Oct. 24, 1999-Jan. 16, 2000.

• Manuel Jordán, ed., Chokwe! Art and Initiation Among Chokwe and Related Peoples (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1998), n. pag., fig. 71.
• Manuel Jordán, “Exhibition preview: Chokwe! Art and Initiation Among Chokwe,” African Arts (Summer 1999), pp. 18-19, fig. 1.
• Nancy Raabe, “Chokwe! Art and Initiation Among Chokwe,” The Birmingham News, October 18th, 1998, pp. 1F, 10F (ill.).
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 51, pp. 128-135 (ill.).

Mwanangana (lord of the land) playing a sanza

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Commemorative female figure

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Ngundja (royal seat)

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Ngundja (royal seat)

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Pwo (female) mask

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Kasengosengo (whistle)

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Kisaanji

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Tesa ya ma kanya (snuff mortar)

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