Provenance:
Arman Collection, 1999
Sotheby's Tribal Art, London, March 26, 1990: lot 146 and cover.
Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig (MAS 8970 on reverse)
Collected by Robert Visser, 1903
Robert Visser, head of a Dutch trading company in the Lower Kongo region, was the main purveyor of Kongo art for the Berlin and Stuttgart Museums from 1902 - 1909.

Publishing History:
African Faces, African Figures: The Arman Collection. New York. The Museum for African Art, 1997: 104-105 (number 54).

Arman & l'art Africain. Marseille. Musée de Marseille. Réunion Musées Nationaux, 1996: 105, fig.54.