id:			453046
accession number:	2022.48
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.48
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:36.059000

Fon Kuoutou being carried to War against the Manguot, 1930s. Ibrahim Tita M’bohou (Bamum Kingdom (Cameroonian), 1914–1977). Paper, ink, watercolor; paper: 49.5 x 63.5 cm (19 1/2 x 25 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Trust 2022.48

title:				Fon Kuoutou being carried to War against the Manguot
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creation date:			1930s
creation date earliest:		1930
creation date latest:		1939
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Trust
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culture:	Africa, Central Africa, Bamum Kingdom, Cameroon
technique:	Paper, ink, watercolor
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Ibrahim Tita M’bohou (Bamum Kingdom (Cameroonian), 1914–1977)  - artist

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measurements: Paper: 49.5 x 63.5 cm (19 1/2 x 25 in.)
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	inscription:	Auteur Ibrahim tita M’bohou _(initials?)_
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>A Cameroon World: Art and Artifacts from the Caroline and Marshall Mount Collection</em>. Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Oakland Gardens, NY (October 2007 - February 2008).

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PROVENANCE

	Marshall Mount, by purchase in Cameroon, (co-owned by M. Mount and C.K. Mount)
	date: 2005
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	Sole ownership to Caroline Katz Mount, United States, by inheritance
	date: 2018–2022
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	(Amyas Naegele Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 2022
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2022–
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fun fact:
Two objects depicted in this drawing—a processional statue and a pipe bowl—have real-life parallels in the CMA collection (1972.328, 1975.163).

digital description:
This drawing depicts a procession of men and women carrying the ruler Koutou (reigned late 17th–early 18th centuries) in a palanquin. Distinctive headgear and garments identify the courtiers and warriors, as does the hierarchical scale of figures. Drawn by M'bohou in the 1930s, it depicts the lead-up to the Bamum Kingdom’s war against the Manguot.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Page, Donna. <em>A Cameroon World: Art and Artifacts from the Caroline and Marshall Mount Collection</em>. Bayside, NY: QCC Art Gallery, City University of New York, 2007.
	page number: 	p. 30, p.89 (plate 42)
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