Three standing figures ·  Cameroon, Mambila · ID: 3033687

Description

wood, a) remains of polychrome paint, h: 19 cm, angled arms and legs, dam., insect caused damage, cracks, paint rubbed off; b) remains of polychrome paint, h: 26 cm, hole in the parting, min. dam., fissures, insect caused damage; provenance: Bernd Muhlack, Kiel, Germany; Coll. Baronin de Pierrebourg; c) middle brown patina, h: 20,5 cm, angular legless torso, short arms and reduced facial features, min. dam.;
presumably representing guardian figures, which are used to be kept in niches in the wall and sometimes contain medicine, inserted in cavities in the body.

The object Three standing figures with the object ID 3033687 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 334.

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