Online catalogue for the 59th tribal art auction

79 Huntsman fetish-calebash

This object is not available any more.

Cameroon Grassfields

pumpkin, rotan base, rotan ring around the neck of the receptacle, 12 animal jawbones (apes) attached, plaited grass fibre handle, the whole object coated with a clay-like encrusted patina

H: 40 cm
H: 15.7 inch

Provenance
Coll. Werner Fischer, Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Literature
Dagan, Esther A., The African Calabash, When art shares nature's gift, New York 1988, p. 112, ill. 96

Sold.