Court of Benin, taken from the Royal Palace in 1897 during the British military occupation of Benin; Admiral Sir George le Clerc Egerton, London, taken during the Benin Expedition Admiral B. Egerton, until 1959; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, loan to The Museum of PrimitiveArt, New York, 1959–1964; The Museum of PrimitiveArt, New York, 1964–1978
Works from the Permanent Collection
Museum of PrimitiveArt, September 21, 1960–May 5,1961
Traditional Sculpture of Africa
Art Institute of Chicago, October 12, 1961–November 12,1961
The Art of Personal Adornment
Museum of Contemporary Crafts, September 23, 1965–November 7,1965
Techniques and Materials of PrimitiveArt
Museum of PrimitiveArt, July 22, 1966–October 23,1966
Art of Oceania, Africa and the Americas from The Museum ofPrimitiveArt
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 10, 1969–August 17,1969
Sculpture of Black Africa Nigeria &Cameroon
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 23, 1971–March 19,1972
African Ivories
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 26, 1984–December 30,1984
Elephant: The Animal and Its Ivory in AfricanArt
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 13, 1993–March 27,1994
Jewelry: The Body Transformed
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 12, 2018–February 24,2019
Holcomb, Melanie, eds. Jewelry: The Body Transformed. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018, pp. 122–27, pl. 104.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art of Oceania, Africa, and the Americas from the Museum of PrimitiveArt. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969, no. 378.
Newton, Douglas. Masterpieces of PrimitiveArt: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978, pp. 98–99.
Ross, Doran H. Elephant: The Animal and Its Ivory in African Culture. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1992.