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.