Helmet mask, around 1900 · Cameroon Grassfields, Babanki · ID: 3039930
sold
EUR 2,200
Provenance
Officer Adolf Diehl, Germany; Diehl was a fieldcollector and General Director of Plantations in Cameroon & representative of the Gesellschaft Nordwest Kamerun. Collected hundreds of objects on commission for the Leipzig Ethnographic Museum and the Linden-Museum Stuttgart, GermanyLinden-Museum Stuttgart, Germany
Ernst Heinrich, Stuttgart/Bad Cannstatt, Germany
Southern German Collection
Size
H: 45,5 cm
H: 17.9 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, pigment remains, coiffure in openwork design: semi-circles in four rows arranged on top of each other, Grassfield typical face with round cheeks, “bulgy eyes” and teeth-revealing mouth, handwritten old collection label on the inside: “75212 - L.1085/563 - Kamerun Banyang - A. Diehl Kamerun”, slightly dam., minor missing parts, traces of insect caused damage, fine cracks