Heddle pulley

CultureGuro peoples

MediumWood

DimensionsOverall: 5 1/2 × 2 1/4 × 2 1/4 inches (13.97 × 5.72 × 5.72 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Tranin Family from the collection of Donald H. Tranin

Object number2013.47.15

On View

Not on view

Collections

African Art

Terms

Provenance

Possibly Comte Baudouin de Grunne (1917-2011), Brussels, Belgium [1];

With Alexander Gallery, St. Louis, MO, no. 9533, by March 1986 [2];

Purchased from Alexander Gallery by Donald (1927-2007) and Sally (1930-2017) Tranin, Kansas City, MO, no. 177, March 3, 1986;

By descent to their son, Ed Tranin, Leawood, KS, and their daughter, Laura Tranin, Seattle, WA, by 2013;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.

NOTES:

[1] According to object documentation provided by Alexander Gallery at the time of the object’s purchase, NAMA curatorial files. According to Comte de Grunne’s son, Bernard de Grunne, in email correspondence with MacKenzie Mallon, Specialist, Provenance, September 29, 2022, NAMA curatorial files, he has no recollection of this knife having been in his father’s collection. According to Jean G. Fritts, Sotheby’s, in the catalogue introduction to The Baudouin de Grunne Collection of African Art auction, Sotheby’s New York, May 19, 2000, de Grunne acquired most of his collection between 1965 and 1980 from European dealers and collectors.

[2] A label with the Alexander Gallery’s stock number is on the underside of the object’s base.

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