Zemanek-Münster

Helmet mask "agwe"

Cameroon Grassfields, Widekum
sold EUR 1,500
Provenance
Zemanek-Münster Würzburg, 11. Oktober 1997, lot 443
Udo Petry, Hohnhorst, Germany
Size
H: 33 cm
H: 13.0 inch

Description

wood, dark brown patina, nearly entirely coated with animal skin, just the narrow eye slits and the mouth remained free, the teeth inserted with wooden splinters, raised tattoos on the temples, slightly dam., missing parts (leather: above all on the right side of the head/ wood: coiffure right hand side)


Publications

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst in Deutschen Privatsammlungen, München 1973, p. 234, ill. 329

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