Dance crest · Cameroon, Tikar · ID: 3041166
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Provenance
Ketterer, Munich, 30 April 1988, lot 408Helga & Hans-Jürgen Müller, Stuttgart, Germany
Size
H: 24 cm
L: 38,5 cm
H: 9.4 inch
L: 15.2 inch
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, red and white paint, helmet-shaped corpus, crowned by free carved leopard with remains of dotted painting, anthropomorphic face to the front, two drilled holes for attachment, dam., missing parts (hole), breakages (both hind legs), cracks, abrasion of paint, traces of usage (rim of the helmet)
The object Dance crest with the object ID 3041166 was last part of the auction 84th Tribal Art Auction at November 5, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 104.
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