Mask "agwe" · Cameroon Grassfields, Widekum · ID: 3036742
David & Clifford Gelbard, New York, USA
Description
wood, entirely coated with leather, dark brown patina, inserted teeth (partly missing), rep. (leather partly cracked), small missing parts, cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
worn during funerary rituals dedicated to members of the warrior society known as “nchibbe”.
The object Mask “agwe” with the object ID 3036742 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 411 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,500.
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Comparing literature
Fagaly, William, Ancestors of Congo Square, New Orleans 2011, p. 225
Publications
Bourgeois, Arthur & Scott Rodolitz, Remnants of Ritual, New York 2003, p. 23, ill. 53; <br>Celenko, Theodore, African Art in Cultural Context: Selections from the Wally and Brenda Zollman Collection, Ball State University, Muncie 1988, fig.13