Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

2000, Gift to the Indiana University Art Museum from a private collector [1]

Unidentified dates, unidentified owner(s), possibly in Kuba culture, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and/or other places [2]

Notes
[1] The collector wishes to remain anonymous.

[2] We do not yet know how many changes in ownership transpired between when this artwork was initially made and owned to when the donor acquired it. This absence of documentation on ownership history within Kuba culture in present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo where textiles like this one were made and used is part of a larger history of collecting practices that did not record prior ownership among communities of origin.

Provenance research is ongoing for this and many other items in the Eskenazi Museum of Art permanent collection. For more information about the provenance of this artwork, please contact the department curator with specific questions.

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