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Wooden bowl

Main catalogue: "KUPSA wooden bowl with foot and handle, opposite the handle a protrusion in the shape of a head and a pointed snout; outside and nose formed humanly. The outside and rim ornamented." Index card "...projection in the shape of a head/bird. The bowl stands on a ring foot, the connecting timbers between the ring foot and the bowl are curved; the ring foot rim, bowl wall and the top of the handles are decorated with dark, raised carved geometric patterns on a light background. Similar objects can be found in the Lindenmuseum, Stuttgart (Ramsya 1904, 35.117) and in the Musée de l'Homme (34.171,45.1) Paris (Harter, p. 74)"

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Cataloguing data

Cultural attribution
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
Object type
Wooden bowl
Dimensions
Depth: 36,5 cm
Diameter: 43 cm
Material/Technique
Wood
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 25388

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    where
    Cameroon
    who
    Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    Africa

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CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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