Snake Headdress (a-Mantsho-ña-Tshol or Inap)

1. Possibly John J. Klejman (died 1995), Klejman Gallery, New York, N.Y., before 1960 [correspondence documented in curatorial file]; sold to Muriel Kallis Newman (died 2008), Chicago, Ill., by 1960; given to the Art Institute, 2007.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Primitive Art from Chicago Collections, Nov. 16, 1960-Jan. 2, 1961, cat. 102.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Critical Fabulation, Oct. 10, 2025-Jan. 4, 2026, no cat.

• Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art from Chicago Collections (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1960), cat. 102.
• Allen Wardwell, “Primitive Art from Chicago Collections,” The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly 54, no. 3 (Sept. 1960), pp. 8.
• William S. Lieberman, An American Choice: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg/Newman Collection (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981), pp. 147 (ill.).
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “Snake Headdress (A-Mantsho-ña-Tshol or Inap),” Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 35, 2 (2009), pp. 10-11, 92.
• 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 16-1, no. 62 (Winter 2011), pp. 60 (ill.).

D’mba (great mother) headdress

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a-Mantsho-ña-Tshol (master of medicine) headdress

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

D’mba (great mother) figure

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Zigiren-wöndë (young bride) headdress

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a-Mantsho-ña-Tshol (master of medicine) headdress

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

a-Tshol (medicine) shrine figure and headdress

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

a-Bil-ña-Tshol (medicine canoe) headdress

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A-ndëf

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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