Small head · Cameroun, Yabassi · ID: 3035744
Vendu
3 800 €
Provenance
Carl Franz Bally (died 1899)Eduard Bally-Prior, Schönenwerd, Switzerland
Bally Museum, Schönenwerd, Switzerland
René David, Zurich, Switzerland
Antonio Fiacco, Fehraltorf/Zurich, Switzerland
Description
light brown wood, matt brown patina, black paint remains, a head rising from a round base, eyebrows and nose forming a T-shaped zone, rectangular deepened mouth with long teeth, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
was used in death cult.
Littérature comparée
Göbel, Peter, Holzplastik aus Afrika, Berlin 1990, p. 55 f.