BAMANA HEADDRESS, MALI

Gaston de Havenon, New York, acquired by 1960

Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, acquired from the above in November 1972

The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, Antelopes and Queens: Bambara Sculpture from the Western Sudan, February 17 - May 8, 1960

Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., African Art: the de Havenon Collection, May 30 - October 3, 1971

Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., A Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture, April 30 - June, 1, 1986; and traveling: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, August 20, 1986 - March 1, 1987

Katonah Museum of Art, African Art: Masterpieces from Private Collections, December 5, 1993 - February 27, 1994

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture, November 19, 2002 - April 13, 2003

Robert Goldwater, Bambara Sculpture from the Western Sudan, New York, 1960, p. 47, pl. 75

Warren M. Robbins, African Art: the de Havenon Collection, Washington, D.C., 1971, n.p., pl. 51

Dominique Zahan, Antilopes du soleil. Arts et rites agraires d'Afrique noire, Vienna, 1980, pl. 70, no. II 130

Kate Ezra, A Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture, Washington, D.C., 1986, p. 12, cat. no. 8

Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 70, fig. 48

Michael Kan, African Art: Masterpieces from Private Collections, Katonah, 1993, n.p.

Alisa LaGamma, Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture, New York, 2002, p. 105, cat. no. 59