The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  ?–1966

  Unnamed Cameroonian owner

  1966–1969

  Purchased in 1966 in Bacham, Cameroon by Katherine White Reswick

  Provenance Footnotes

  1 "The proprietor offered us several small stools for sale...The man said he had a few old things at home he could show us...On a corner table he had a two foot Bamum figure standing, and holding his chin. I picked it up, and began to like it." Entry for "Bacham, Cameroon, 1966" (p. 9) in Katherine White Reswick diary, copy in CMA Curatorial files

  2 Entry for "Bacham, Cameroon, 1966" (p. 9) in Katherine White Reswick diary, copy in CMA Curatorial files
• Citations
  Fagg, William, and Cleveland Museum of Art. 1968. African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, no. 181.
• Exhibition History
  Kent, OH, Kent State University Art Gallery, 1993: "Leadership Arts of West Africa," September 15-October 15, 1993.

  Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).

  CMA 1970: "Year in Review 1969," CMA Bulletin LVII (Jan., 1970), p. 47, no. 130, repr. p. 41.

  CMA 1968: "African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection," cat. no. 181, repr.
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