Bamileke-Bangwa Slit Gong, Grassfields, Cameroon

Alain de Monbrison, Paris, acquired by April 26, 1989

Alan Brandt, New York, presumably acquired from the above

Acquired by the present owner from the above on May 6, 1991

The National Museum of African Art, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Sounding Forms: African Musical Instruments, April 26 - June 18, 1989; additional venues: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, July 16 - September 10, 1989; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, October 7 - December 3, 1989; Musée national des arts africains et océaniens, Paris, [as Afrique. Formes sonores], January 25 - March 20, 1990

Marie Thérèse Brincard, Sounding Forms: African Musical Instruments, New York, 1989, p. 120, cat. no. 53

Bettina von Lintig, Die bildende Kunst der Bangwa. Werkstatt-Traditionen und Künstlerhandschriften, Munich, 1994