Zemanek-Münster

Zoomorphic figure ·  Cameroon, Bakundu / Bafo · ID: 3049218

sold EUR 3,600
Provenance
German Colonial Collection
Size
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


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