BAMILEKE ELEPHANT MASK 4, Cameroon

Photographs © Tim Hamill

BAMILEKE
BEADED ELEPHANT MASK 4
40" high
$800
SOLD
Cameroon

This mask has been vetted as authentic.

Mask 4 has some obvious bead loss, but is the onle one with basketry inside the top of the head. The ears would look much better propped up with an interior brace.

These masks, with beads carefully embroidered onto cloth take the form of an important royal icon, the elephant, with its long trunk and large ears. The patterns on the front and back panels suggest another royal icon, the leopard. The display of wearing these richly embellished masks and other regalia at court ceremonies was the best evidence of the wealth of a Bamileke kingdom.

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