Masque zoomorphe ·  Cameroun Grassland, Wum, Région d´Aghem · ID: 3043738

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).

Littérature comparée

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

AHDRC: 0012022