Alternativ Titleobject type Bronze Head with Base; Benin Princess; Queen Mother; Benin Bronze; Head of a Benin Princess; Bronze Queen Mother Memorial Head; Portrait Head of a Princess; Benin Head, Queen Mother; Head of Princess; Queen Mother (Iyoba) Ancestral Head; Queen Mother Ancestral Head; Benin Queen Mother;The Princess‘ Portrait
Court of the Kingdom of Benin, probably until 1897 “British Punitive Expedition; Unknown; Louis Carré, from [?] until January 10, 1936; consigned by Carré to M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. from [?] until January 10, 1936; Henry Schackenberg, from January 10, 1936 until May 13, 1946; Indefinite loan from Schnakenberg to Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, September 12, 1936 until May 13, 1946; Robert Hull Fleming Museum, / Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, May 13, 1946 to present
"Benin Bronze Heads" 1975 page 32: "The mother of the Oba (king) held her own court at Uselu, a village outside Benin city; their shrines were maintained to mothers of the Oba and bronze heads characterized by a conically shaped cap formed part of the furnishings."; H.F. Sachs Inc. "African Bronzes from Ife and Benin" Nov.-Dec 1941 No. 4 with illustration.; correspondence with Philip Dark (in files) July 28, 1975 for dating and question of flanged base; Dark 1975 "Benin Bronze Heads: Styles and Chronology" in African Images, Boston U. Papers on Africa V. 6.
Exhibition Historyexhibition history “Bronzes and Ivories from the Old Kingdom of Benin,” M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., 14 East 57th Street, New York City; Nov. 25 – Dec. 14, 1935; No. 6
“African Bronzes from Ifé and Benin,” H.F. Sachs, Inc., 63 East 52nd Street, New York, NY; November 11 to December 6, 1941; No. 4.
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Marble Court, June 1946
“Masterworks from University and College Art Collections,” no. 86. University of Kansas Museum of Art, February 22 – March 30, 1958
African Sculpture and Textiles, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, April 13 to May 21, 1982
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, August 30 – September 6, 1988
“WO/MAN: The Culture of Gender,” Ethnographic Gallery, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, September 22, 1988 – December 15, 1989
Robert Hull Fleming Museum / Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, African and Ancient Egyptian Gallery, ca. 1996 – November 21, 2020
Published Referencesbibliography “Bronzes and Ivories from the Old Kingdom of Benin,” M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York City, 1935: No. 6
“African Bronzes from Ifé and Benin,” H.F. Sachs, Inc., New York, NY, 1941: No. 4 – illustrated.
“Museum Gets Head of Benin Princess In Ancient Bronze,” Burlington Free Press, June 17, 1946
Masterworks from University and College Art Collections, exhibition catalog, no. 86. University of Kansas Museum of Art, February 22 – March 30, 1958
William B. Pope, Letter to the Editor, Vermont Cynic (University of Vermont student newspaper), September 27, 1982
Mary Ann Ricketson, “Exhibition Of Equality,” Vermont Cynic (University of Vermont student newspaper), September 8, 1988
Angela Patten, “Cultural Constructions,” Burlington Entertainment Guide, September 1988
Joan Cook, “Going On in the Northeast: ‘Culture of Gender,’” The New York Times, October 23, 1988
William Haviland, Cultural Anthropology, 5th edition, 1989, p. 552.