Zoomorphic mask · Cameroon Grassfields, Wum, Aghem Region · ID: 3043738
Elisabeth Leopold, Vienna, Austria
Dorotheum, Vienna, 3 May 2011, lot 83
David Serra, Barcelona, Spain
Description
wood, kaolin, base
This type of mask is widely seen as being a goat (Northern, 1986) or hippopotamus (Gardi, 1994). Comparable masks with spherical grooved horns can be found from the Kom and Oku. Here they are called “keyak” (ram). A very similar mask, which was acquired in the Aghem region, can be found in the Museum of Ethnology in Munich (Homberger, p. 238, ill. 134).
The object Zoomorphic mask with the object ID 3043738 was part of the auction 89th Tribal Art Auction on July 7, 2018. The object with the lot number 324 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,900 with an asking price of EUR 2,500.
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Comparing literature
Northern, Tamara, Expressions of Cameroon art, Michigan 1986, p. 58, ill. 48 Gardi, Bernhard, Kunst in Kamerun, Basel 1994, p. 94, ill. 96 Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Kamerun, Kunst der Könige, Zürich 2008, p. 238, ill. 134
Publications
Galeria Kumbi Saleh, Visages, Barcelona, 2011, p. 20 f.
AHDRC: 0012022