Resources
Exhibition HistoryKansas City, Missouri, Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, The Imagination of Primitive Man, 1962.
Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection, July 10 - Sept. 1, 1968 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 10 - Dec. 1, 1968).
Los Angeles, California, Frederick S. Wight Gallery, University of California, African Art In Motion, Jan. 20 - Mar. 17, 1974 (Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Apr. 21 - July 30, 1974).
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Selections from the Katherine White Collection, Mar. 1, 1987 - Aug. 1, 1987.
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, American Art: The Stories We Carry, Oct. 20, 2022 - ongoing.
Published ReferencesGrosz-Ngate, John H. Hanson, Patrick O'Meara, Africa: Fourth Edition, 2014, plate 8.12
The Cleveland Museum of Art, African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection, Cleveland, Ohio, 1968, no. 52
Dark, Philip J. C., An Introduction to Benin At and Techonology, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1973. a, b
University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, African Art in Motion: Icon and Act, Robert Farris Thompson, 1974. p. 112-113 pl. 149
Lamp, Frederick. Cosmos, Cosmetics, and the Spirit of Bondo, in African Arts, Vol. 18, No. 3, May 1985, pp. 36, 98, illus. p. 36, no. 15
Joice, Gail, Michael Knight, and Pamela McClusky, Ivories in the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1987, no. 15, pp. 20-21
Selected Works, Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1991, p. 36
Blier, Suzanne Preston, Imaging Otherness in Ivory: African Portrayals of the Portuguese ca. 1492, in The Art Bulletin, Vol. 75, No. 3, Sept. 1993, illus. p. 392, no. 18
Hart, W.A., Quaderni Poro: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Art History of Sierra Leone, 1995, ill. no. 10 (reproduction)
Seattle Art Museum: Bridging Cultures, London: Scala Publishers Ltd. for the Seattle Art Museum, 2007, pp. 58-59, illus. p. 58
Mellon, James. The Great African Bangle Culture. Douglas: Fruitful Publications, 2018; p. 109, reproduced.
Woodward, Richard B., et al. The Arts of Africa: Studying and Conserving the Collection Virgina Museum of Fine Arts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020; p. 82, reproduced fig. 17.2.