MAHONGWE RELIQUARY FIGURE, GABON

Reportedly collected in situ between 1933-1936

Jean Roudillon, Paris

Merton D. Simpson, New York, acquired from the above

Sidney and Bernice Clyman, Scarsdale, acquired from the above on July 13, 1976

Alain Chaffin and Françoise Chaffin, L'art Kota. Les figures de reliquaire, Meudon, 1979, pp. 78 and 323

Warren M. Robbins and Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989, Washington, D.C., 1989, p. 344, fig. 892

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

Vivien Raynor, "Behind African Masks and Ritual Objects, Spiritual Mysteries", The New York Times, January 16, 1994, p. WC13

Alisa LaGamma, Eternal Ancestors: the Art of the Central African Reliquary, New York, 2007, p. 217, cat. no. 53