Two paddles · Cameroon, Duala · ID: 3038025
sold
EUR 200
Size
H: 161 cm & 179 cm
H: 63.4 inch & 70.5 inch
Description
middle brown wood, matt patina, party open worked, ornamental carvings, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
such decorative but eminently unfunctional oars have early souvenir trade status, though they are also reported to have been used indigeniously, perhaps as dance wands during canoe regatta festivities.
Comparing literature
Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 180