id:			144828
accession number:	1969.6
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1969.6
updated:		2025-02-09 03:28:35.344000

Royal Retainer, early 1900s. Equatorial Africa, Cameroon, Bamum, early 20th century. Wood; overall: 68.6 cm (27 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Katherine C. White 1969.6

title:				Royal Retainer
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creation date:			early 1900s
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1925
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creditline:			Gift of Katherine C. White
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culture:	Equatorial Africa, Cameroon, Bamum, early 20th century
technique:	wood
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 68.6 cm (27 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1969
	opening date:   1970-01-27T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1969</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA 1968: "African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection," cat. no. 181, repr.', 'opening_date': '1968-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA 1970: "Year in Review 1969," CMA Bulletin LVII (Jan., 1970), p. 47, no. 130, repr. p. 41.', 'opening_date': '1970-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Kent, OH, Kent State University Art Gallery, 1993: "Leadership Arts of West Africa," September 15-October 15, 1993.', 'opening_date': '1993-09-15T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Unnamed Cameroonian owner
	date: ?–1966
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block-->"The proprietor offered us several small stools for sale...The man said he had a few old things at home he could show us...On a corner table he had a two foot Bamum figure standing, and holding his chin. I picked it up, and began to like it." Entry for "Bacham, Cameroon, 1966" (p. 9) in Katherine White Reswick diary, copy in CMA Curatorial files</div>
			
			
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	Purchased in 1966 in Bacham, Cameroon by Katherine White Reswick
	date: 1966–1969
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			* <div><!--block-->Entry for "Bacham, Cameroon, 1966" (p. 9) in Katherine White Reswick diary, copy in CMA Curatorial files</div>
			
			
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Fagg, William, and Cleveland Museum of Art. 1968. <em>African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, no. 181.
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