Bird dance crest · Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke · ID: 3038814
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Provenance
Helmut Zake, Heidelberg, GermanySize
H: 24,5 cm
L: 45 cm
H: 9.6 inch
L: 17.7 inch
Description
heavy wood, dark brown patina, helmet-shaped, rep. (breakage beak), small missing parts, traces of abrasion;
according to P. Harter to the Bamileke birds have a special connotation with death, connecting heaven and earth as two realms of the living and the dead.
The object Bird dance crest with the object ID 3038814 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 377.
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