Rare figural object of highly abstract form ·  Cameroon, Kaka · ID: 3040661

Description

wood, blackish brown patina, encrusted in some areas, anthropomorphic head with drilled eye holes and a broad grinning mouth, rising from the body of a bird(?) with projecting wings and broad tail feathers, drilled hole in the neck, opening in the body, incised ornaments, sacrificial mass on the forehead, slightly dam., cracks, abrasion, base;
the Kaka live south of the Donga River in the Grassfields of Cameroon. Their neighbours are the Mambila, who, however live in Nigeria. The Kaka’s figures all distinguish themelves by a very individual style some of them of an expressive character, some of an unusual fragmentation of the body shapes. The objects are mostly covered with a thick patina of soot.

The object Rare figural object of highly abstract form with the object ID 3040661 was last part of the auction 83rd Tribal Art Auction at May 28, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 349.

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