Anthropomorphic dance crest · Cameroon Grassfields, Widekum · ID: 3037171
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Provenance
collected in situ (1971-1975)Size
H: 26 cm
H: 10.2 inch
Description
wooden core, coated with blackened animal skin, arms and legs carved separately, inserted teeth, burled scarification marks, real hair coiffure, disc-shaped wickerwork base, min. dam., cracks, traces of abrasion
Comparing literature
Arts d' Afrique noire 67 (1988), p. 24, ill. 7