Whistle | Yale University Art Gallery

19th–20th century

Medium: Ivory and pigment
Dimensions: 6 1/2 × 1 1/8 in. (16.5 × 2.9 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Paul F. Walter
Accession Number: 2021.2.15
Geography: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Culture: Pende
Period: 19th–20th century
Classification: Musical Instruments
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Provenance

William W. Brill (died 2003), New York, probably by about the 1960s [see note 1]; sale, Sotheby's, New York, November 17, 2006, lot 89; sold to Paul F. Walter (1935–2017), New York; bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017

Note 1: Brill's collection, much of which was acquired from European collectors and dealers, was chiefly formed in the 1960s (see The William W. Brill Collection of African Art, Sotheby's, November 17, 2006)

Bibliography

Sotheby's, New York, The William W. Brill Collection of African Art, sale cat. (November 17, 2006), no. lot 89

Object copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations), whistles

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