Ancestor Namji
This type of ancestor statuette is less common among Namji they are especially known for their fertility dolls. The Namji They are…
FRT-22
Cameroon
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Zengue fetish
Small protective fetish called Zengue or Chiki-Chki used mainly in fertility rites. They may be male or female and are sometimes kept…
FRT-23
Elephant Mask
This mask was worn on the head, horizontally, during ritual dances and is still used today on some festivities. These masks, called…
FPR-12
Fertility Doll
The Doayo They live in the Northern Province of Cameroon, in the department of Benué-Garoua. Like the Kirdi they are engaged in…
FRT-43
Fertility Doll
The Doayo Inhabit the Northern Province of Cameroon, in the department of Benué-Garoua. Like the Kirdi they are engaged in cattle raising…
FRT-25
Elephant Mask
This mask was worn on the head, horizontally, during ritual dances and is still used today on some festivities. These masks, called…
MFZ-12
Fertility Doll
The Doayo They live in the Northern Province of Cameroon, in the department of Benué-Garoua. Like the Kirdi they are engaged in…
FRT-26
Bufalo Nyatti mask
The sculptors Duala showy elongated masks, representing a stylized and polychrome buffalo, called nyatti. The trapezoidal shape of the head…
MSOAL-6
Bufalo Nyatti mask
The sculptors Duala showy elongated masks, representing a stylized and polychrome buffalo, called nyatti. The trapezoidal shape of the head…
MSOAL-7
Bufalo Tsenya mask
Red wood mask covered with brass plates called tsenya or tsepfeliExaggerated teeth show the aggressiveness of the animal. The horned horn is…
MFZ-21
Oil Lamp
Small ground oil lamp cooked featuring three characters, Pygmies, with facial scarifications. These lamps were intended to illuminate the…
TRRC-26
Oil Lamp
Ovoid-shaped lamp made of baked clay intended to illuminate the interior of the huts when there is no fire on.It has representation…
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Maternity
Motherhood of clay cooked with varied polychrome representing a mother of anthropomorphic appearance but with head of cow or buffalo, animals…
MTR-18
Oil Lamp
Oil lamp intended to illuminate the interior of the huts when there is no fire on. He always wears a lamp at…
TRRC-27
Sorcerer’s Basket
Finely braided recipient with raffia that is used by the sorcerer in the ceremonies of magic and divination. The receptacle is finished…
MYA-10
Terracotta
They live in northern Cameroon east of Nigeria. Your statues tThey are recognizable by their heart-shaped faces and their disproportionate heads.…
TRRC-45
Royal Altar Mask
The altar masks do not dance or participate in dances, they are sacred masks that are kept in the sanctuary. Only priests…
MSOAL-9
Terracotta Funeral and Divinatory
Terracotta figures that do not usually exceed 25 centimetres and which are intended to commemorate an ancestor or a founding hero of…
TRRC-47
Funeral and Divinatory Figure
Terracotta figures that do not usually exceed 25 centimetres and which were intended to commemorate an ancestor or a founding hero of…
TRRC-48
Anthropozoomorph vessel
Vase with human features and bird beak. The handles of the container are formed by hands and very short arms. A necklace…
TRRC-51
Oil Lamp
In their ceremonies they worship the land and ancestors by pouring corn beer on the ground and on the tombs, as a…
TRRC-53
Elephant Mask
Small ethnic group with only 30.000 persons along the Cameroonian border with Nigeria, occupying the Donga. Apparently the current ones Mambila…
MFZ-26
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…
BRN-60
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…
BRN-61
