A KOM STANDING CHIEF FIGURE

A KOM STANDING CHIEF FIGURE
CAMEROON
wearing a knobbed cap and a bead necklace, his left hand holding a libation horn and his right hand forming a circle to grip an object,
129cm high, on a base (2)

This figure could be the portrait of an ancestor set out and presented during invocations made to forebears, or on the occasion of fertility or other rituals.

Provenance
Halls, Shrewsbury, 17 October 1997, lot 100

Exhibited
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
Grosvenor Museum, Chester
Towneley Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Burnley
Bury Art Gallery and Museum
Stockport Art Gallery
Wycombe History and Chair Museum