Hunting pipe and rattle · West Africa · ID: 3035877
sold
EUR 500
Provenance
a) Fred Jahn, Munich, Germanyb) Patrick Mestdagh, Brussels, Belgium
Description
wood, greyish brown, resp. reddish brown patina, a) hunting pipe, Bamenda/Cameroon, crowned by a stylized animal head, min. dam., slight traces of usage, base, h: 26,5 cm; b) rattle, Ngala/D.R. Congo, crowned by two rattle elements of metal, min. dam., cracks, base, h: 20,5 cm
The object Hunting pipe and rattle with the object ID 3035877 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 217 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.
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Comparing literature
a) Schimmer, Oskar, Flöten und Pfeifen aus West- und Zentralafrika, Erlangen 2007, ill. 30 b) Yale Archive No. 00931191 (comparable object)