Multipart bracelet · Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke · ID: 3036054
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Provenance
Argile, Arts Primitifs, Paris, FranceSize
L: 23 cm
L: 9.1 inch
Description
ivory, slightly shiny honey brown patina, 16 bracelets tied together by a band of fabric, min. dam., fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
all the rings are carved from a single tusk and were worn on ceremonial occasions. When not in use they were stored on a bunch of palm fibres.
The object Multipart bracelet with the object ID 3036054 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 367.
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Comparing literature
Fisher, Angela, Afrika im Schmuck, Köln 1988, p. 80, ill. 5