Headdress
Original Language TitleChi Wara
CultureBamana
Dateca. 1900
MediumWood and metal
DimensionsOverall (with mount): 39 × 3 1/8 × 15 1/2 inches (99.06 × 7.94 × 39.37 cm)
Credit LineGift of Ralph T. Coe Center for the Arts, 2025
Object number2025.56.8
On View
Not on viewWith Alexander-Suggs Gallery, Inc., St. Louis, MO, until August 9, 1974 [1];
Purchased from Alexander-Suggs Gallery, Inc. by Ralph T. Coe (1929-2010), Santa Fe, NM, August 9, 1974-2010;
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 the 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. S. Thomas Alexander III opened the Alexander-Suggs Gallery in 1970 with Donald M. Suggs in St. Louis, MO.
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