Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art

July 13, 2006, Gift to the Indiana University Art Museum from Budd Stalnaker, Bloomington, IN

2003, Budd Stalnaker purchase from Hamidou Berete, Teaneck, NJ

Unidentified date, Hamidou Berete 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 how or when Hamidou Berete acquired this object.

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