Lot 225: A Fine and very early Cameroon Grasslands mask

A Fine and very early Cameroon Grasslands mask, Bamileke; Cameroon

The mask with exceptional patina exhibiting extensive use, high trapezoidal coif representing a prestige cap above a rounded brow and wide eyes with thin brow lines incised; the nose classical with flaring nostrils and the mouth open and toth, with small beard beneath.

Old label on the reverse says 'Kamerun'. H. 12"

Comments:
Property of an East Coast private collection

Provenance:
Field collected by 1887 by Jesso Albert Eugene Van Puttkamer; German colonial military chief, in the Cameroon grasslands

Estimate: $1,000 - $1,200

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