Yoruba Diviner's Staff, Nigeria

William Wright, New York

Daniel and Marian Malcolm, Tenafly, New Jersey, acquired from the above on April 29, 1984

Acquired from the above by the present owner

The Center for African Art, New York, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, September 20, 1989 - January 7, 1990; additional venues: The Art Institute of Chicago, February 10 - April 1, 1990; The National Museum of African Art, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 8 - August 26, 1990; The Cleveland Museum of Art, September 26 - December 9, 1990; The New Orleans Museum of Art, January 11 - March 24, 1991; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, April 23 - June 16, 1991

The Museum for African Art, New York, To Cure and Protect: Sickness and Health in African Art, February 7 - August 31, 1997; additional venue: the National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, D.C., February 18 - August 23, 1999

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Art and Oracle: Spirit Voices of Africa, April 26 - July 30, 2000

Henry John Drewal and John Pemberton III, with Rowland Abiodun, Yoruba: Nine Centuries of African Art and Thought, New York, 1989, p. 35, cat. no. 36

Frank Herreman, To Cure and Protect: Sickness and Health in African Art, New York, 1999, p. 33, cat. no. 46, and back cover

Alisa LaGamma, Art and Oracle: Spirit Voices of Africa, New York, 2000, p. 54, cat. no. 30