Mask of a dignitary ·  Cameroon Grassfields · ID: 3024318

Description

wood, blackish brown patina, small remains of red paint, encrusted with clay, expressive in form, bulky head crest with burls, disc-shaped beard, slightly dam., cracks, missing parts at the back of the rim, base

The object Mask of a dignitary with the object ID 3024318 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 400 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,000.

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Comparing literature

Germann, Paul, Das plastisch-figürliche Kunstgewerbe im Graslande von Kamerun, o.O., o. J., ill. 3