id:			163545
accession number:	2004.85.b
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.85.b
updated:		2024-09-12 11:15:46.056000

Staff of Office (lower segment), early-mid 1800s. Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Luba-style maker. Iron; overall: 170 cm (66 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2004.85.b

title:				Staff of Office (lower segment)
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creation date:			early-mid 1800s
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1850
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	Africa, Central Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Luba-style maker
technique:	Iron
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Sculpture
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measurements: Overall: 170 cm (66 15/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Art and Power in the Central African Savanna
	opening date:   2008-09-18T00:00:00
	<i>Art and Power in the Central African Savanna</i>. Menil Collection, Houston, TX (September 26, 2008-January 4, 2009); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 1-May 31, 2009); Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (June 20-October 11, 2009).

	title:		Artlens Exhibition 2019
	opening date:   2019-06-11T04:00:00
	<i>Artlens Exhibition 2019</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Chief Msidi (c. 1830–1891), Yeke (Garanzange) Kingdom (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo), 1888, given to British missionary Frederick Stanley Arnot
	date: ?–1888
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			* <div><!--block-->"Msidi's farewell was quite touching in its way. He was anxious that I should wait for his son to go with me. I did not care to encourage this, so declined to wait. At last, after finding that I sought nothing from him, he gave me from his side his rod of authority, or sceptre, assuring me that it would be, to all who knew him, an assurance of the friendship that exists between us." March 13, 1888 letter from Frederick Stanley Arnot reproduced in Arnot, Frederick. S. 1893. <em>Bihé And Garenganze: Or Four Years' Further Work and Travel in Central Africa</em>. London: J.E. Hawkin, pp. 244–45.</div><div><!--block--><br></div>
			
			* <ul><li><!--block-->Msidi is often referred to as Msiri, or by the fuller name Mwenda Msiri Ngelengwa Shitambi</li></ul><div><!--block--><br></div>
			
			
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	Frederick Stanley Arnot [1858-1914], probably Glasgow, Scotland, 1914, by descent to his son Dr. Arthur B. Arnot.
	date: 1888–1914
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	Dr. Arthur B. Arnot, New York, NY, 1987, consigned for auction at Sotheby’s.
	date: 1914–1987
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	(Sotheby’s, Important Tribal Art, New York, NY, Nov. 10, 1987, Lot #79, sold to Philippe and Hélène Leloup for George Feher)
	date: 1987
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	George Feher, New York, NY, 1990s, acquired by Morris Pinto
	date: 1987–1990s
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	Morris Pinto, New York, NY, 1996, acquired by Philippe and Hélène Leloup
	date: ?–1996
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	Philippe and Hélène Leloup, Paris, France, 2004, donated to Marie Victoire Koch
	date: 1996–2004
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	Marie Victoire Koch, Saint Mandé, France, 2004, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 2004
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2004–
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CITATIONS

	Petridis, Constantine. 2011. “New Acquisitions of African Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.” <em>African Arts</em>, p. 54, fig. 2.
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