Kom or Bafut Helmet Mask, Grassfields, Cameroon

Charles Ratton, Paris (inv. no. 6955), acquired by 1930

Pierre Matisse, New York (inv. no. 339), acquired on consignment from the above

John P. Anderson, Red Wing, Minnesota, acquired from the above on April 27, 1935

Thence by descent to the present owner

Valentin Marquetty, Exposition d'art africain et d'art océanien, Paris, 1930, p. 14, cat. no. 148 (listed)

P. Karman, Nord-Sud. Revue Franco-Scandinave, Vol. 1, No. 6, March 15, 1930, n.p.

Joseph Maes and Henri Lavachery, L'Art nègre à l'exposition du Palais des beaux-arts, Brussels and Paris, 1930, n.p., pl. 40

Charles Ratton, Masques africains, Paris, 1931, n.p., pl. 13

James Johnson Sweeney, African Negro Art, New York, 1935, p. 45, cat. no. 330 (listed)

Pierre Matisse Gallery, African Sculptures from the Ratton Collection [exhibition checklist], New York, 1935, n.p., probably cat. no. 19 (listed)

Charles-Wesley Hourdé and Nicolas Rolland, Galerie Pigalle. Afrique. Océanie. 1930. Une exposition mythique, Paris, 2018, p. 100, p. 151, p. 171, and p. 225, cat. no. 148

Galerie du théâtre Pigalle, Paris, Exposition d'art africain et d'art océanien, February 28 - April 1, 1930

Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Art nègre. Les arts anciens de l'Afrique noire, November 15 - December 31, 1930

Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro, Paris, La danse sacrée, June 12 - October 28, 1934

Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, African Sculptures from the Ratton Collection, March 30 - April 20, 1935