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Items from the private collection of Oscar Mokeme, co-founder and director of The Museum of African Culture, Portland, Maine.
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LOT 363:
KIM-AREA BUFFALO HEADDRESS CAMEROON, 19TH-20TH CENTURY WOOD, PIGMENTS
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Start price:
$
500
Estimated price :
$600 - $900
Buyer's Premium: 20%
sales tax: 5.5%
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KIM-AREA BUFFALO HEADDRESS CAMEROON, 19TH-20TH CENTURY WOOD, PIGMENTS
Height 18 inches. Some paint loss and wear.
An imposing variety of masks were used in the Grasslands by masking societies controlled by chiefs or important family heads. Some masks represent human faces and others have combination of human and animals features. The dynamic forms of this buffalo head offers a massive economic power of manifestation and analogous to strength, on this buffalo headdress, white pigments emphasize large curved horns, the ears, eyes, flaring nostrils, and open mouth.
