Male figure "tadep" · Cameroon, Mambila · ID: 3046647
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Provenance
Michel Gosse, Caen/Paris, FranceSize
H: 33,5 cm
H: 13.2 inch
Description
light wood, colour pigments, rep., base
Deepening for filling with magical charge on the back.
Anthropomorphic figures of the Mambila were usually called ancestor figures “tadep” in older literature.
The object Male figure “tadep” with the object ID 3046647 was last part of the auction 94th Tribal Art Auction at March 7, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 295.
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