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Throwing Knife

1800s

Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Oriental Province, Mangbetu, 19th century

Iron and wood

Overall: 36.5 cm (14 3/8 in.)

Gift of the Gilpin Players of Karamu House 1929.333

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Provenance

1928

Purchased by Paul Travis on behalf of the African Art Sponsors and the Gilpin Players in Ekibondo, Democratic Republic of the Congo (then-Belgian Congo) ¹

1928

The African Art Sponsors and the Gilpin Players ²

1929–

The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift

Provenance Footnotes

¹Boger, Ann C. et al. Paul B. Travis Africa 1927-1928. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. PP. 32, 35–36, 48

²12/3/1928 letter to the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History from Hazel Mountain Walker (Gilpin Players, president) and Harry E. Davis (African Art Sponsors, president) reproduced on p. 54 of Adams, Henry et al. Paul Travis 1891-1975. Cleveland Artists Foundation, 2001.

Exhibition history

Western Reserve Historical Society (4/24/2004 - 11/27/2004): 'Standing on Ceremony: Traditional African Arms from the Donna and Robert Jackson Collection and the Cleveland Museum of Art"

Standing on Ceremony: Traditional African Arms from the Donna and Robert Jackson Collection and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 24, 2004-March 15, 2005).

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Central Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Oriental Province, Mangbetu, 19th century

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