Power figure · Cameroon, Upper Cross River, Anyang, Ekoi Complex · ID: 3047933
sold
EUR 950
Provenance
Jan Kusters, Waalre, The NetherlandsSize
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