Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

January 15, 2006, Gift to the Indiana University Art Museum from Tom Joyce, Santa Fe, NM

Unidentified date, Tom Joyce acquires [1]

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

Notes
[1] We do not yet know when or how Tom Joyce acquired this work.

[2] We do not yet know how many changes in ownership transpired between when this artwork was initially made and owned to when Tom Joyce acquired it. This absence of documentation on ownership history within Kuba culture in present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo where objects 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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