Mask (Ngoin?)

Tikar peoples (possibly Kom), Western Grassfields, Cameroon (map), d. late 19th/early 20th c.

Carved wood, pigments

Ex–Pennsylvania collection, United States

12” h x 7.5” w x 8” d (31 x 19 x 20 cm)

SOLD

Cf. Sotheby’s (2003, lot 63) for a somewhat similar example.

REFERENCES

African and Oceanic Art, Friday 14 November 2003, Sotheby’s (New York, 2003), lot 63.

Nothern, Tamara. The Art of Cameroon. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1984.

SOLD