Fetish-calabash · Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke · ID: 3033622
Birgit Schlothauer & Gustav Wilhelm, Marl, Germany
Description
corpus of pumpkin, anthropomorphic carved neck and stopper made of wood, three animal skulls attached, min. dam., fissures, slight traces of abrasion, acrylic ring;
belonging to the local fetishman the calabash used to help people redress grievances. When, under proper ritual, the fetishman removes the stopper, the power inside the calabash is released to forcefully warn the wrongdoer of the danger in continuing harmful acts.
The object Fetish-calabash with the object ID 3033622 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 354.
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Comparing literature
Page, Donna, Two, three, four, Multiples in African Art, New York 1987, p. 25, ill. 38
Publications
Fischer, Werner, Kamerun und seine Kunst, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 66