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• Provenance
  ?–1888

  Chief Msidi (c. 1830–1891), Yeke (Garanzange) Kingdom (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo), 1888, given to British missionary Frederick Stanley Arnot.

  1888–1914

  Frederick Stanley Arnot [1858-1914], probably Glasgow, Scotland, 1914, by descent to his son Dr. Arthur B. Arnot.

  1914–1987

  Dr. Arthur B. Arnot, New York, NY, 1987, consigned for auction at Sotheby’s.

  1987

  (Sotheby’s, Important Tribal Art, New York, NY, Nov. 10, 1987, Lot #79, sold to Philippe and Hélène Leloup for George Feher)

  1987–1990s

  George Feher, New York, NY, 1990s, acquired by Morris Pinto

  ?–1996

  Morris Pinto, New York, NY, 1996, acquired by Philippe and Hélène Leloup

  1996–2004

  Philippe and Hélène Leloup, Paris, France, 2004, donated to Marie Victoire Koch

  2004

  Marie Victoire Koch, Saint Mandé, France, 2004, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art

  2004–

  The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

  Provenance Footnotes

  1 "Msidi's farewell was quite touching in its way. He was anxious that I should wait for his son to go with me. I did not care to encourage this, so declined to wait. At last, after finding that I sought nothing from him, he gave me from his side his rod of authority, or sceptre, assuring me that it would be, to all who knew him, an assurance of the friendship that exists between us." March 13, 1888 letter from Frederick Stanley Arnot reproduced in Arnot, Frederick. S. 1893. Bihé And Garenganze:Or Four Years' Further Work and Travel in Central Africa. London: J.E. Hawkin, pp. 244–45.
• Citations
  Arnot, Fred S. Bihe and Garenganze: A record of four years’ work and journeying in Africa. London: J.E. Hawkins & Co, LTD., 1893, front cover. Front cover

  Sotheby’s. Important Tribal Art. New York: Sotheby’s, 1987: Lot. 79. lot. 79

  Nooter, Robert and Nancy. The Art of Collecting African Art. New York City, NY: New York Center for African Art, 1988, 20-21. p. 20-21

  Bacquart, Jean-Baptiste. The Tribal Arts of Africa. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998, 159. p. 159

  Cleveland Museum of Art. Annual Report 2004. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 67. p. 67 www.clevelandart.org

  Cleveland Museum of Art. “Major Acquisitions: 2000-2005.” In The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine: July/August 2005. (Summer 2005): 12. p. 12

  Petridis, Constantine. Art and Power in the Central African Savanna: Luba, Songye, Chokwe, Luluwa. Brussels: Mercatorfonds, 2008, 58-9, fig. 39. p. 58, 59: fig. 39

  Petridis, Constantine. "New Acquisitions of African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art". In African Arts, 44, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 54, fig. 2. p. 54: fig. 2

  Petridis, Constantine, et al. Fragments of the Invisible: The René and Odette Delenne Collection of Congo Sculpture. Milan: 5 Continents, 2013, 107. Mentioned: p. 107
• Exhibition History
  Artlens Exhibition 2019. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer).

  Art and Power in the Central African Savanna. Menil Collection, Houston, TX (September 26, 2008-January 4, 2009); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 31, 2009); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (June 20-October 11, 2009).
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