Headdress

CultureKurumba peoples

MediumWood and pigment

DimensionsOverall: 36 × 23 1/2 × 6 5/8 inches (91.44 × 59.69 × 16.84 cm)

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

Object number2013.47.31

On View

Not on view

Collections

African Art

Terms

Provenance

Art market, late 1940s or early 1950s [1];

With Hampton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, by February 1995;

Purchased from Hampton Gallery by Donald (1927-2007) and Sally (1930-2017) Tranin, Kansas City, MO, no. 191, February 15, 1995;

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 a description on the Hampton Gallery sales slip, dated February 15, 1995, this object was “collected” in 1947. A handwritten note from Gilbert Hampton to Donald Tranin, dated April 10, 1995, indicates the object was “purchased in the late forties early fifties by whom and under what circumstance is unknown.” Both notes in NAMA curatorial files.

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