Dance crest in shape of a bird · Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke · ID: 3036532
sold
EUR 2,600
Provenance
Ketterer, Munich, 7. Dezember 1984, lot 221Rolf Miehler, Munich, Germany
Inge Arendts, Munich, Germany
Size
H: 24 cm
L: 57 cm
H: 9.4 inch
L: 22.4 inch
Description
wood, dark brown patina, kaolin, helmet-shaped, wings in concentrical grooves, slightly dam., traces of insect caused damage, missing parts (tip of the right wing), acrylic base;
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 Dance crest in shape of a bird with the object ID 3036532 was part of the auction 76th tribal art auction on March 22, 2014. The object with the lot number 525 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,600 with an asking price of EUR 800.
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Comparing literature
Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 156, ill. 88