Zoomorphic mask
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82nd Tribal Art AuctionZoomorphic mask
Cameroon, Mambila
Provenance | Size | Starting price / estimated price |
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Ketterer, Munich, 4 May 1979, lot 154 Hans Dietrich Rielau, Hösbach, Germany Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach, Germany |
H: 40.6 inch | sold |
wood, encrusted patina, black and white paint, two holes to hold decorative material, rest. (breakage at the snout), small missing parts, traces of abrasion;
many objects of Mambila art are associated with the seasonal cycles of planting and harvesting and the cult of ancestors whose material abode is the guarded shrine of every family compound. The masks and statues were kept hidden from the eyes of the women in crochet nets inside the shrine.
Wittmer, Marcilene, Cameroon, Charlotte 1977p. 31, ill. 45 a
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst in Deutschen Privatsammlungen, München 1973, p. 248, ill. 349; Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst, München 1975, p. 176, ill. 246