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Whistle / flute, Cameroon Grassfields, Bamenda, Size: H: 28 cm (H: 11.0 inch), ID: 3050460
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Whistle / flute ·  Cameroon Grassfields, Bamenda · ID: 3050460

Starting price EUR 550
Estimated price EUR 1,200
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Provenance
John & Nicole Dintenfass, New York, USA
Zemanek-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.

Comparing literature

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

Publications

AHDRC: 0142668

Africa

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