Beautiful old mask of leader "kam" · Cameroon Grassfields, Bafut or Oku · ID: 3043964
Kurt Egger(t), Heidelberg, Germany
Michael Vignold, Cologne, Germany (2007)
Description
wood, plant fibre, base
“Kam” (“nkam” or “akam”) is the leader of a so-called “juju” group of dancers, who perform at death celebrations and at festivities in honour of the ancestors. As the principal mask of the “juju”, which carries additional medicines and controls the other masks, its importance was occasionally compared to the position of the head of the family.
The object Beautiful old mask of leader “kam” with the object ID 3043964 was last part of the auction 89th Tribal Art Auction at July 7, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 325 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,000.
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