Zoomorphic figure · Cameroon, Bakundu / Bafo · ID: 3049218
sold
EUR 3,600
Provenance
German Colonial CollectionSize
H: 16,5 cm
H: 6.5 inch
Description
wood, encrusted patina,
A comparable figure entered the holdings of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin in 1901. In the museum catalog it is listed as a “fetish figure with bird head” (cf. Krieger, Vol. I,1978, plate 147 / AHDRC 0011023).
Comparing literature
Krieger, Kurt, Westafrikanische Plastik, Bd. I, Berlin 1978, ill. 147