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Janiform helmet mask "agwe" ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Widekum · ID: 3043039

sold EUR 1,400
Provenance
Tribal Arts Gallery II, New York, USA (1974)
Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, USA (L80.62.118)
Joshua Dimondstein, Brussels, Belgium
Size
H: 50,5 cm
H: 19.9 inch

Description

wood, hide/ leather, colour pigments, collection number “L80.62.118”, tears and missing parts (leather)


The object Janiform helmet mask “agwe” with the object ID 3043039 was last part of the auction 94th Tribal Art Auction at March 7, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 291 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,400.

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Publications

African Arts, 1975, Vol.VIII, no.2, p.63

AHDRC: 0011770


Exhibition

New York, USA: "Headpieces and masks of Nigeria and Cameroon", Tribal Arts Gallery, July-August, 1974


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