Beautiful old mask of leader "kam" · Cameroon Grassfields, Bafut or Oku · ID: 3043964
sold
EUR 3,000
Provenance
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 24 April 1975, lot 181Kurt Egger(t), Heidelberg, Germany
Michael Vignold, Cologne, Germany (2007)
Size
H: 42 cm
H: 16.5 inch
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.
Publications
AHDRC: 0011602