Zoomorphic Figure (Boli)

1. Harold and Mary X. Weinstein, Chicago, Ill., by 1961; given to the Art Institute, 1961.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Spiritual Expressions: Art for Private Contemplation and Public Ceremony, Nov. 22, 1995–March 17, 1996, Gallery 142, no cat., brochure (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Critical Fabulation, Oct. 10, 2025-Jan. 4, 2026, no cat.

• Allen Wardwell, "Six New Acquisitions: Sculpture of the Bambara," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, vol. 56, n. 1 (March 1962), pp. 2-5 (ill.).
• Charles Long, Alpha, The Myths of Creation (New York: George Braziller, 1963), pl 3.
• Allen Wardwell, Primitive Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1965), pp. 5 (ill).
• Art Institute of Chicago, 1996, Spiritual Expressions: Art for Private Contemplation and Public Ceremony, exh. brochure (ill.).
• Kathleen Bickford and Cherise Smith, "Art of the Western Sudan," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, vol. 23, n. 2 (1997), pp. 115 (ill).
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 11, pp. 46-47 (ill.).
• C. Granzotto et al. "Characterization of surface materials on African sculptures: new insights from a multi-analytical study including proteomics," in Analyst, issue 10, 2021, 146, 3305-3316. [https://doi.org/10.1039/D1AN00228G]

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