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Mask of a dignitary ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Bekom/Tikar · ID: 3038961

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Provenance
Jean-Paul Agogué, Paris, France (Sammlungsnummer AJP 128…unreadable)
Size
H: 32 cm
H: 12.6 inch

Description

wood, dark brown patina, (darkened) kaolin, of typical expressive form, disc-shaped beard, diadem-like grooved coiffure, large eyes vaulted by incised sickle-shaped eyebrows, slightly dam., minor missing parts (upper lip, beard), cracks, abrasion of paint (above all backside)


The object Mask of a dignitary with the object ID 3038961 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 380.

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