Standing figure · Nigeria, Chamba · ID: 3042419
sold
EUR 1,700
Provenance
Alain Berck-Vitz, Stockholm, SwedenSize
H: 50 cm
H: 19.7 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, red pigment, pointed face with projecting ears, massive helmet-shaped headdress, elongated cylindrical trunk with drilled armpits, just like the drilled ear holes presumably used for attachment of magical loading, slightly dam. (ears), cracks, base;
the Chamba live on the border between present-day Cameroon and Nigeria. They carve different types of wooden sculptures for different uses. Some of them depict named ancestors or cultural heroes which were placed on shrines.
Comparing literature
Evers, Christophe, Art of the Upper Benue River, Brussels 2003, p. 29