Buffalo mask ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Bamessing · ID: 3032930

Description

wood, brown patina, kaolin, voluminous and expressive in form, min. dam., traces of insect caused damage, fissures;
the skull of a buffalo is associated with chiefly authority. This animal gives its horn for producing drinking horns which were widely used as prestige symbols and were handed down from one generation to the other.

The object Buffalo mask with the object ID 3032930 was last part of the auction 69th tribal art auction at June 2, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 239.

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