Zemanek-Münster

Power figure

Cameroon, Upper Cross River, Anyang, Ekoi Complex
sold EUR 950
Provenance
Jan Kusters, Waalre, The Netherlands
Size
H: 16 cm
H: 6.3 inch

Description

fragmentary, wood, metal, base

Early figure of great expressiveness.

A comparable object entered the collections of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin in 1901 and is illustrated in Krieger’s standard work “Westafrikanische Plastik”,1978, ill. 81 (AHDRC 0090411).


Comparing literature

Krieger, Kurt, Westafrikanische Plastik, Bd. I, Berlin 1978, ill. 81

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