Staff
Unknown owner;
Purchased at the unknown owner's sale, Ashanti gold and goldweights, art and ethnography from Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, March 18, 1980, lot 405, by Dr. Stuart Struever (1931-2022), Santa Fe, NM, 1980 [1];
Acquired from Struever by Taylor Dale Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, around October 24, 1994-April 15, 2000 [2];
Purchased from Taylor Dale Gallery by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), Santa Fe, NM, April 15, 2000-2010;
His bequest to the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM, 2010-2025;
The Coe Center's gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2025.
NOTES:
[1] According to object documentation provided by the Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts at the time of the object's gift, see Nelson-Atkins curatorial files. [2] Acquired through partial trade and partial purchase as suggested in a letter dated October 24, 1994 from Struever to Taylor A. Dale. Struever suggests a "partial trade" of his Senufo staff for a Yoruba staff in Dale's possession: "I'd be glad to work out an arrangement whereby I pay you a certain amount of money in cash and include the Senufo staff." For the full letter, see Nelson-Atkins curatorial files.
Christie's, Ashanti Gold and Goldweights: Art and Ethnography from Africa, The Americas and the Pacific (London: Christie's, 1980), 97, n. 405, (repro.).
Oberlin College, Selections from the Ralph T. Coe Collection of African Art (Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College, Allen Memorial Art Museum, 2002), 45 (not illustrated).
