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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


The object Anthropomorphic dance crest with the object ID 3037171 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 412.

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Comparing literature

Arts d' Afrique noire 67 (1988), p. 24, ill. 7


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