Cameroon elephant masks, then and now

May 29, 2013

While doing research on the incredible Babanki elephant headdress in the last Sotheby’s sale, I encountered this wonderful field-photo (unfortunately withouth any contextual information).

 

(image courtesy of Henning Christoph)
(image courtesy of Henning Christoph)
 

The contrast with the field-photo below, taken in Oku in 1976, was so striking I just had to share it.

 

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(image source: “African Masks from the Barbier-Mueller Collection”, 2002, p. 63)
  

More wonderful Henning Christoph field-photos can be found here (scroll down).

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