Gong ·  Prairie Camerounaise, Bamum · ID: 3036538

Description

wood, corroded iron, the long handle wrapped with bulges of fabric, embroidered with cowrie snails and glass beads, crowned by a janus head with nearly identical facial features, min. dam., lose head, fine cracks and tears;
single and double gongs, commonly made of iron, are the visual emblem and the authoritative voice of the regulatory society throughout the Grassfields.

Littérature comparée

Northern, Tamara, The Art of Cameroon, Washington D.C. 1984, p. 128