Mask "agwe" ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Widekum · ID: 3036742

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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”.

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Comparing literature

Fagaly, William, Ancestors of Congo Square, New Orleans 2011, p. 225

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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

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