Whistle ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Bamenda · ID: 3042447

Description

wood, shiny dark brown patina, fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
the general structure of this whistle assumes the form of a stylized human figure. Although the swelling forms that top the whistle may suggest the horns of a bush cow, they probably depict a style of prestige cap commonly worn by men in the Grassfield region. The rest of the figure is reduced to geometric forms.

Comparing literature

Brincard, Marie-Therese, Sounding forms, Washington D.C. 1989, p. 170, ill. 141