Pearl Mask
Bamun · Cameroon
Reference: FPR-3
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- Height
- 35 cm
- Material
- Wood, multicolored ceramic pearls, metal discs.
Mask, from western Cameroon. It is a wooden scimer mask, with black pigmentation, covered on its front with yellow, red, white and green ceramic pearls forming…
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Full original description
Mask, from western Cameroon. It is a wooden scimer mask, with black pigmentation, covered on its front with yellow, red, white and green ceramic pearls forming geometric drawings. From the high headdress fall two wide lateral braids with lines of embossed dots and three rows of small red and black metal discs on the front.
Further technical information
- Attributed period
- Mid-century XX
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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Cameroon. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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