Ɵ Zoomorphic Dance Crest, Mama-Katana, Central... Lot 49

Ɵ Zoomorphic Dance Crest, Mama-Katana, Central Benue State, Nigeria Wood with brown-red patina H. 37 cm Mama-Katana Zoomorphic Dance Crest mangam Middle Benue, Nigeria H. 14 1/2 in Provenance: - Milton D. Ratner Family Collection, Chicago - Herbert Baker, Chicago, 1973 - Sotheby's London, June 24, 1992 (lot 177) - Lance Entwistle, London - Private Collection Publication: - Warren M. Robbins, Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, Survey 1989, Washington, D.C. and London: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989, p. 294, no. 758. - Henry J. Drewal, Traditional Art of the Nigerian Peoples, The Ratner Collection, Washington, D.C., 1977, fig. 49. Exhibition: - Traditional Art of the Nigerian Peoples, The Milton D. Ratner Family Collection: Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., June 29, 1977 - April 16, 1978.