Court of Benin, taken from the Royal Palace in 1897 during the British military occupation of Benin; [W. D. Webster, London, 1898–1900]; Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, Farnham, Dorset, UK, from 1900; Mr. and Mrs. Klaus G. Perls, New York, until 1991Court of Benin Objects in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ezra, Kate. Royal Art of Benin: The Perls Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 222–223, no. 105.
Ross, Doran H. Elephant: The Animal and Its Ivory in African Culture. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1992.
Pitt-Rivers, Lieutenant General Lane-Fox. 1900. Antique Works of Art from Benin. London: pl. 27, fig. 178.
"ROYAL ART OF BENIN. The Perls Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Kate Ezra. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York 1992, no. 105