Head sculpture "atwonzen" · Cameroon Grassfields, Bamileke, Chiefdom Fonchatula · ID: 3032551
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Provenance
Belgian Private Collection, Brussels (1979 - 1983)Description
wooden core, covered with knotted grass fibre weave and spread with a blackish clay-like mass, real human hair in the facial area and at the back of the head, eyes and nose with cowrie snail inlay, the coiffure consisting of strings of miniature glass beads of various forms and colours, slightly dam.
Littérature comparée
Harter, Pierre, Les Rois Sculpteurs, Paris 1993, p. 96/97