Helmet mask "agwe" · Cameroon Grassfields, Widekum · ID: 3034358
Udo Petry, Hohnhorst, Germany
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)
The object Helmet mask “agwe” with the object ID 3034358 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 248 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,500.
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Publications
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst in Deutschen Privatsammlungen, München 1973, p. 234, ill. 329