Collected by Henry Morton Stanley at Lake Tumba (Ntomba, Mantomba) in the late 19th century. Stanley was the first European to visit the lake, first doing so in 1883. Cf. Opitz 2001: 205.

An interesting circle of provenance—we bought this piece from Jim Howarth, a Lancashire, England antique dealer in the late 1980s, who had acquired it from a local estate, with the history of being collected by Henry Morton Stanley in the 1880s. We sold it to Seward Kennedy, London, then Adam Prout, England purchased it from the Seward Kennedy estate, sold it to Brant Mackley, Santa Fe, where we purchased it again!

REFERENCES

Opitz, C. An Ethnographic Study of Traditional Money. Ethnographic Arts Publ, 2001.