Register Auction 104
Zemanek-Münster

Whistle / flute

Cameroon Grassfields, Bamenda
Price EUR 1,200
plus 27 % commission, VAT, transport and insurance
Provenance
John & Nicole Dintenfass, New York, USA
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 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


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