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Offering the Finest Quality Sub-Saharan African Art Fine African Cameroon Bamileke Beaded Headdress Crest Mask
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Documentation of Authenticity / Any Available Provenance Will Be Included With This Piece. CONDITION Surface deterioration, chips and scrapes, worn areas, some beads lost, professionally cleaned, overall condition good. Thank you and please view my other items. BACKGROUND There are the one million Bamileke spread over the southwestern plateaus. The Bamileke resisted slave raids with suicide or rebellion, contributed very little to the Black population of the New World. The artistic production of the people living in the Grassland of Cameroon is closely associated with royal and societal ceremonies. To assert his power, the king uses large figurines, thrones and prestige paraphernalia. Beautiful beaded objects are famous in the western world and highly value for the intricate bead works and wonderful designs.
Painter Fred Uhlman words - Most of the artists I admired, Picasso, Modigliani, Deraini, to mention only a few, had collected African art and had been profoundly influenced by it. Shortly afterwards I bought the Baule Fetish and the Baule bobbin which are still two of the finest pieces in my collection. It is easy to see why I bought them and why from that moment I have never stopped collecting. The head of the bobbin or heddle - pulley which is after all only a functional object for the purpose of weaving seemed to me then and today as beautiful as a Greek goddess. The fetish moved me as deeply as the bobbin by its silent tragic dignity and its air of profound meditation. GUARANTEE |
