Post · Cameroon, Bangwa · ID: 3040665
sold
EUR 3,500
Provenance
Philippe Ratton, Paris, FranceSize
H: 89 cm
H: 35.0 inch
Description
wood, encrusted greyish brown patina, carved with two janus heads, rhomb-shaped piercing in the middle, min. dam., cracks , missing parts through insect caused damage, slight traces of abrasion, base;
these posts are used to define the restricted area where the ceremonies of the night society were held. Many of the objects collected from the northwestern Bangwa group show the same traces of soot from having been stored in the roof space of dwellings.
Comparing literature
Fagg, William, African Majesty from Grassland and Forest, Ontario 1981, p. 69, ill. 24