Lot: 278

91 Tribal Art Auction

Anthropomorphic face mask

Cameroon, Bangwa

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Gudrun Eisenberg, Blankenberg, Germany
Grudrun Eisenberg descends from the old Saxon dynasty "von Trotha" with the same-named ancestral seat "Burg Trotha" in todays Halle-Trotha.
H: 17.7 inch sold

wood,
This mask was probably used by an antiwitchcraft society. Witchcraft was believed to be the cause of diverse misfortunes, primarily illness and death.