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Figural kola nut receptacle "fuwu", Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke / Bamum, Size: H: 67 cm (H: 26.4 inch), ID: 3045636
Figural kola nut receptacle "fuwu", Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke / Bamum, Size: H: 67 cm (H: 26.4 inch), ID: 3045636 - 2/6 Figural kola nut receptacle "fuwu", Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke / Bamum, Size: H: 67 cm (H: 26.4 inch), ID: 3045636 - 3/6 Figural kola nut receptacle "fuwu", Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke / Bamum, Size: H: 67 cm (H: 26.4 inch), ID: 3045636 - 4/6 Figural kola nut receptacle "fuwu", Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke / Bamum, Size: H: 67 cm (H: 26.4 inch), ID: 3045636 - 5/6 Figural kola nut receptacle "fuwu", Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke / Bamum, Size: H: 67 cm (H: 26.4 inch), ID: 3045636 - 6/6
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Lot 90
92nd Tribal Art Auction

Figural kola nut receptacle "fuwu" ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke / Bamum · ID: 3045636

sold EUR 600
Provenance
collected in 1914
René Salanon, Paris, France
Guy Montbarbon, Paris, France (1969)
René Rickli, Olten, Switzerland
Size
H: 67 cm
H: 26.4 inch

Description

wood, rep. (ring-shaped base)

Rulers kept containers lined with fresh leaves and filled with kola nuts always ready to offer guests.

To break a kola nut with the ruler was regarded the hight of hospitality and trust.

Expertise

Guy Montbarbon, Paris, 26 April 1969

Comparing literature

Gebauer, Paul, Art of Cameroon, New York 1979, p. 200

Publications

AHDRC: 0010479

Africa

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