Standing figure · Cameroon, Mfumte/Kaka, Border Nigeria-Kamerun, Donga River · ID: 3039532
sold
EUR 1,800
Provenance
collected in situ (1972)Size
H: 45,5 cm
H: 17.9 inch
Description
wood, face and body entirely coated with a thick encrusted layer of clay-like sacrificial mass, remains of cloth and fibre inbetween, lateral deepenings at shoulder height, a further one in the head which is filled with magical mass, slightly dam., fine cracks, feet and legs marked by insect caused damage;
according to Paul Gebauer formerly used for the ancestral cult.
Comparing literature
Gebauer, Paul, Art of Cameroon, New York 1979, p. 317, M27