Photographer: Martin Franken | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International01, front side before restoration | Photographer: Susanne Litty | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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human face
Main catalogue: "NGUNGA, dance mask. Headpiece: flat board carved in the shape of a face with a high cap on a thick bead of banana leaves surrounded by a dense mass of raffia fibres. Two loops woven from banana leaf discs hang down below for the arms to pass through"
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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
Object type
Header mask
Dimensions
Height: 65 cm
Width: 60 cm
Depth: 44 cm
Weight: 2,6 kg
Width: 60 cm
Depth: 44 cm
Weight: 2,6 kg
Material/Technique
Wood, Bast
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
III C 25605
Provenance and sources
where
Cameroon [Land]
who
Bamun (Bamum, Mamum, Bamoun, Mamoun, Mamoum)
Description
Purchase from Dr Ankermann 1909
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