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1942.13.1398

Stylised carved figure, light wood stained black. The figure has a human body and a bird head. [SM (Verve) 02/03/2015]

1942.13.1398

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stylised carved figure, light wood stained black. The figure has a human body and a bird head. [SM (Verve) 02/03/2015]
Long description
Stylised carved figure, light wood stained black. The figure has a human body holding both hands together against the chest, bent knees and a bird head. The beak terminates in a rounded knob. [SM (Verve) 02/03/2015]
Geographical reference
Cameroon
Africa > Central Africa > Cameroon
Bamenda
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1942
Date collected
By 1942
Acquisition information
Donated: 1942
Materials and processes
Material Wood Plant, Material Pigment, Process Carved, Process Stained
Dimensions
Depth: max 77 mm, Width: max 56 mm, Length: max 255 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1942.13.1398 Other numbers: 642
Research and responses

In his account of a 'Standing Male Figure' from Bamenda in the Barbara and Murray Frum Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, William Fagg refers to a 'large number of these objects, collected by M. D. W. Jeffres in the thirties, in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford'; see page 141 of African Majesty: From Grassland to Forest, by William Fagg (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981 [catalogue of an exhibition of the Barbara and Murray Frum Collection, held at the Art Gallery of Ontario from 22 May to 12 July 1981]). This may be one of the figures Fagg had in mind; see also the records for 1942.13.1392, 1942.13.1393, 1942.13.1394, 1942.13.1395, 1942.13.1396, 1942.13.1397. [JC 11 3 2004]

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