Reliquary figure (byeri) | Photographer: Martin Franken
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Reliquary figure (byeri)
The figurine is part of a byeri that was purchased with two guardian figurines and the entire contents from a German administrative official in southern Cameroon. The figure is unusually well preserved with its jewellery made of glass beads, a European button and the large feather bonnet. She carries a medicine horn in her hand. The eyes, jewellery scars and bracelets are accentuated by sheet brass fittings and brass nails. These precious materials emphasise her strength, which is also expressed visually in her muscular body, broad neck, taut face with a flat chin and wide, narrow-lipped mouth. / P.J.
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Fang Ngumba
Object type
Reliquary figure (byeri)
Dimensions
Höhe x Breite x Tiefe: 112 x 41 x 37 cm
Gewicht: 2,2 kg
Gewicht: 2,2 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Feathers (giant turaco, helmeted guinea fowl, crowned eagle, screaming hornbill, grey parrot, domestic fowl), Iron, Brass, Glass, Feather (Helmeted guineafowl), Feather (crowned eagle), Feather (screaming hornbill), Feather (grey parrot), Feather (domestic fowl)
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 6689 a-c
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is related to :
Objektbezug: III C 6689 c, Reliquiarfigur (byeri), 19. Jh., Georg Zenker (11.6.1855 - 1922)
Objektbezug: III C 6689 c, Reliquiarfigur (byeri), 19. Jh., Georg Zenker (11.6.1855 - 1922)
Objektbezug: III C 6689 c, Reliquiarfigur (byeri), 19. Jh., Georg Zenker (11.6.1855 - 1922)
Provenance and sources
when
19th century
where
Cameroon [Land/Region]
who
Fang Ngumba
who
Georg Zenker (1855-06-11 - 1922) - Collectors
Description
Purchase from Zenker, Georg August 1897
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