Cameroon, by 1972; [1]

[Sold to Barry Kitnick, 1972];

Purchased by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2004.

[1] As per curatorial file, the object was "purchased in Cameroon" by Kitnick.

Los Angeles, Gallery K, September 28, 1976–October 25, 1976, "Figurative Sculptures of the Niger River Delta," no. 1.
Los Angeles, The Fowler Museum of Cultural History at UCLA, May 19, 2002 – November 17, 2002, "Ways of the Rivers: Art and Enivronment of the Niger Delta."
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 26, 2017–July 9, 2017, "The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts," no. 27.

Rubin, Arnold, Figurative Sculptures of the Niger River Delta, (Los Angeles: Gallery K, Inc., 1976), cover, p. 8, no. 1.
Silverman, Melvin, "Figurative Sculptures of the Niger River Delta," African Arts 10, no. 2 (1977), 73.
Anderson, Martha G. and Philip M Peek, eds., Ways of the Rivers: Arts and Environment of the Niger Delta (Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2002), p. 109, fig 3.17 a, b.
Dreyfus, Renée, De Young: Selected Works (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2005), 22.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Africa, Oceania, the Americas, and the Jolika Collection of New Guinea Art: Highlights From a Decade of Collecting (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2009), p.16.
 Roberts, Mary Nooter, “The Inner Eye: Vision and Transcendence in African Arts,” African Arts 50, no. 1 (2017), p. 73, fig. 27.
 
Nguyen, Arthur, "A Conversation With Dr. Polly Nooter Roberts on the Inner Eye," interview with Dr. Polly Nooter Roberts in Insider - Los Angeles County Museum of Art 11 no. 2 (Spring 2017), p. 16, fig. 6. 

Karlstrom, Ann Heath, Devorah Major and Kim Shuck, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, deYoung 125 (California: Cameron + Company, 2021), p. 297, no. 121.