Online catalogue for the 53rd tribal art auction

341 Kneeling figure

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Nigeria, Anago

light brown wood, encrusted brown patina, sacrificial traces, disc-shaped base, carved with shorts, with both hands holding an item in front of the body, crowned by a big head with expressive facial features and scarification marks on the cheeks, min. dam., cracks, missing parts, insect caused damage, slight signs of abrasion

H: 32 cm
H: 12.6 inch

Provenance
Terwind, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Price: 1400 - 2100 €

342 Pair of female twin figures "ere ibeji"

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Nigeria, Yoruba, Area of Shaki

wood, brown patina, black paint, strings of glass beads, with long legs rising from a disc-shaped base, supporting a cylindrical trunk with sloping shoulders, merging into long arms with big hands, crowned by oval heads with tribe-typical facial features, scarification marks and high-tapering coiffures, dam., insect caused damage, slight signs of abrasion

H: 27,5 resp. 28 cm
H: 27,5 resp. 11 inch

Provenance
Gallery Schwarz-Weiß, Essen, Germany

Literature
Stoll, Gert, IBEJI, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 243

Price: 1700 - 2500 €

343 Female twin figure "ere ibeji"

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Nigeria, Yoruba, Area of Egbado

wood, dull middle brown patina, string of glass beads, metal rings, with big feet and short legs rising from a flat base, supporting a slender trunk flanked by elongated, free carved arms, big hands with scrolled fingers resting aside the lower legs, the head crowned by a coiffure arranged in several lobes, eyes with pierced pupils flanking an extremely flattened nose, lancet-shaped scarification marks on the cheeks, incised tattoos on the forehead, slightly dam., traces of old insect caused damage (left arm), minor missing parts (base), abrasion

H: 24 cm
H: 9.4 inch

Provenance
Gallery Schwarz-Weiß, Essen, Germany

Literature
Stoll, Gert, IBEJI, Zwillingfiguren der Yoruba, München 1980, p. 95

Price: 1200 - 1800 €

344 Figure "onile"

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Nigeria, Yoruba

brass, dark partly encrusted patina, a kneeling male figure with the hands resting on the bulging belly with elaborate incisions, surmounted by an oval head with tribe-typical facial features and a high tapering headgear, slight traces of corrosion, on base; "onile" figures may appear in pairs. They are called "owner of the house" resp. "father and mother, owner of the house". "House" means the building in which the members of the "ogboni" society stay and were these figures are kept.

H: 23 cm, ~ 1750
H: 9.1 inch, ~ 1750

Provenance
Gallery Schwarz-Weiß, Essen, Germany

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345 Face mask

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Cameroon Grassfields

wood, black patina, rectangular contours with rounded cheeks at the bottom, superstructure consisting of janusheaded snakes, their curved bodies arranged opposite to each other, incised and notched ornaments, dam., missing parts because of old insect caused damage (above all at the back of the rim and at the ear right hand side), cracks, abrasion, place of repair (backside on top)

H: 41 cm
H: 16.1 inch

Provenance
German Colonial Collection, about 1910/20

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346 Mask

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Cameroon Grassfields

light brown wood, brown patina, white paint, of voluminous form, a bulging forehead, a heart-shaped deepened facial plane with whitened eyes underneath, flanking a straight nose with broad nostrils, a smiling mouth and chin beard, crowned by a sickle-shaped headcrest, min. dam., small fissures and signs of abrasion, on base

H: 50 cm
H: 19.7 inch

Provenance
Old German Collection

Literature
Northern, Tamara, Expressions of Cameroon art, The Franklin Collection, 1986, p. 47, ill. 32

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347 Vessel with lid

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Cameroon Grassfields

wood, dull brown patina, carved on a circular open worked base, the vessel resting on five struts, decorated with parallel and dotted incisions, the lid carved with a leopard, min. dam., cracks, signs of usage; the Woodland as well as the Grassland people looked upon leopards as being dangerous, mighty animals, which were associated with power and strength.

H: 36,5 cm
H: 14.4 inch

Provenance
Coll. Karl Woermann, Hamburg, Germany

Literature
Gebauer, Paul, Art of Cameroon, New York 1979, p. 272

Price: 400 - 600 €

348 Stool

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Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke

wood, brown patina, blackened in parts, with circular seat and base, supported by four standing figures with raised arms, high headgears and tribe-typical facial features, min. dam., cracks, slight signs of abrasion; in the Cameroon Grasslands stools are important regalias of the chief. The open worked base is typical for this region.

H: 45,5 cm; D: 25,5 cm
H: 17.9 inch; D: 10 inch

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349 Mask of a dignitary

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Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke

wood, blackish brown patina, kaolin, redwood powder, helmet-shaped, voluminous forms, disc-shaped coiffure with stylized spider motif, big oval eyes underneath curved eyebrows, flanking a bulky nose, an opened mouth with whitened teeth underneath, pierced around the rim, min. dam., fissures, on metal base; the spider motif is widely spread in the Grasslands of Kamerun. The spider is a symbol for wisdom and plays an important role in truth telling.

H: 52 cm
H: 20.5 inch

Provenance
Coll. Karl Woermann, Hamburg, Germany

Literature
Gardi, Bernhard, Kunst in Kamerun, Basel 1994, p. 87
Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 149

Price: 2800 - 4200 €

350 Elephants mask

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Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke

wood, dark brown patina, helmet-shaped base, carved with big oval ears and a protruding narrow trunk, which is flanked by symmetrical arranged, half-circular tusks, slightly dam., insect caused missing parts; mask with an exclusive status as royal icon.

H: 92 cm
H: 36.2 inch

Price: 600 - 900 €