Mask of a dignitary · Cameroon Grassfields, Bamum · ID: 3029849
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Size
H: 46,5 cm
H: 18.3 inch
Description
light brown wood, dark brown patina, kaolin, helmet-shaped, of voluminous forms, disc-shaped headgear with circular drillings, dam., missing parts (alar wings, lips), cracks, slight traces of abrasion, on base
The object Mask of a dignitary with the object ID 3029849 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 329.
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Comparing literature
Northern, Tamara, Expressions of Cameroon art, The Franklin Collection, 1986, p. 48, ill. 34