Zoomorphic mask · Cameroon, Mambila · ID: 3035784
sold
EUR 100
Provenance
Ketterer, Munich, 4 May 1979, lot 154Hans Dietrich Rielau, Hösbach, Germany
Heinz Kolerski, Fellbach, Germany
Size
H: 103 cm
H: 40.6 inch
Description
wood, encrusted patina, black and white paint, two holes to hold decorative materials, rest. (breakage at the snout), small missing parts, traces of abrasion;
many objects of Mambila art are associated with the seasonal cycles of planting and harvesting and the cult of ancestors whose material abode is the guarded shrine of every family compound. The masks and statues were kept hidden from the eyes of the women in crochet nets inside the shrine.