The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  1928

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

  1928

  The Gilpin Players of Karamu House

  1929–

  The Cleveland Museum of Art by gift

  Provenance Footnotes

  1 It appears on a checklist of "African Material" circa 1928 as one of "3 knives with sheathes. This tribe are the finest craftsmen in Africa. Mangbettu, Ekibondi Village, Northeastern Congo." Archives of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
• Exhibition History
  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).

  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"
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