Whistle / flute · Cameroon Grassfields, Bamenda · ID: 3050460
sold
EUR 550
Provenance
John & Nicole Dintenfass, New York, USAZemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 27 May 2017, lot 350
Size
H: 28 cm
H: 11.0 inch
Description
wood,
Men play this type of whistle when dancing “ndang”, a dance performed by men and women when, for example, a new wife arrives in her husband’s compound.
The object Whistle / flute with the object ID 3050460 was last part of the auction Collectors’ Items Sale at September 24, 2025 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 232 achieved a sales price of EUR 550.
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Comparing literature
Brincard, Marie-Therese, Sounding forms, Washington D.C. 1989, p. 170, ill. 141
Publications
AHDRC: 0142668