Altar Mask

The people Tikar, of Bantu origin, is a village of Grassland, it is formed by 300.000 individuals, established in different population centres in central and north-western Cameroon, mainly in Adamawa province. They limit the Bamun to the west with their relatives. Mambila in the northeast, among the most important neighbors. Administratively they are distributed in chiefdoms that correspond more or less to the ancient small kingdoms and groups of notables or ministers with well-defined functions. Many of them have embraced Islam or Christianity in animistic tradition, which makes them live in practice in syncretist religions, in which the universe occupies a central place. In their ceremonies they worship the land and ancestors by pouring corn beer on the ground and on the tombs, as a regenerating element of life.

Small mask intended to be hung on family altars during cults. He's got buffalo horns on his head, which indicates he belongs to a secret society of hunters.