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Anthropomorphic helmet mask ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Babanki / Kom · ID: 3045448

sold EUR 3,500
Provenance
Franco Monti, Milan, Italy
Carlo Monzino, Castagnola, Italy
Serge Schoffel, Brussels, Belgium (2016)
Size
H: 72 cm
H: 28.3 inch

Description

wood, kaolin, base

On the mask are four square openings, which served to place magical charge. Two of them (on the buttocks) are closed by fitted pieces of wood.

A comparable mask is shown in the exhibition catalog of the Rietberg Museum (Kunst der Könige, 2008, p. 235).


Comparing literature

Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Kamerun, Kunst der Könige, Zürich 2008, p. 235


Publications

AHDRC: 0132341


Exhibition

Paris, Parcours des Mondes, 6 -11 September 2016


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