Bird dance crest · Prairie Camerounaise, Bamiléké · ID: 3038814
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Provenance
Helmut Zake, Heidelberg, GermanyDescription
heavy wood, dark brown patina, helmet-shaped, rep. (breakage beak), small missing parts, traces of abrasion;
according to P. Harter to the Bamileke birds have a special connotation with death, connecting heaven and earth as two realms of the living and the dead.