Songye Community Power Figure, Democratic Republic of the Congo

with attachments of Domestic Chicken (Gallus gallus) feathers and Common Waterbuck Antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) hide.

Presumably Henri Kamer, Paris and New York
Allan Stone, New York, acquired from the above on June 8, 1966 (invoice no. "656685")

The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, Power Incarnate: Allan Stone's collects ion of Sculpture from the Congo, May 14 - September 4, 2011

Kevin D. Dumouchelle, Power Incarnate: Allan Stone's collects ion of Sculpture from the Congo, Greenwich, Connecticut, 2011, p. 57, cat. 34 (two views)
No author, "Power Incarnate: Allan Stone's collects ion of Sculpture from the Congo," Tribal Art Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 5, May 2011, p. 5, fig. 6
Jonathan Fogel, "Power Sculpture from the Congo", Tribal Arts Magazine, No. 60, Summer 2011, p. 39

This striking figure, richly adorned with magical substances (bishimba) and metal elements (bishishi), belongs to a workshop which is identifiable in several quite consistent examples which are today in Western collects ions: one in the collects ion of the artist Armand Arman (Loudmer-Poulain, December 18, 1972, lot 106); a second, previously in the collects ions of Gaston de Havenon and Andreas and Kathrin Lindner (Sotheby's Paris, June 8, 2007, lot 250; also published by Neyt 2004: 193, fig. 158bis); and a third previously in the Silberman collects ion (Sotheby's New York, May 17, 2007, lot 150).