Zoomorphic mask · Cameroon Grassfields, Wum, Aghem Region · ID: 3043738
sold
EUR 2,900
Provenance
Rudolf Leopold (1925-2010), Vienna, AustriaElisabeth Leopold, Vienna, Austria
Dorotheum, Vienna, 3 May 2011, lot 83
David Serra, Barcelona, Spain
Size
H: 45 cm
H: 17.7 inch
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).
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