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Description
Note: " ... links vom Eingang Fell mit Perlen, Thron, Fell mit Perlen, 2 Figuren, 2 Blashörner." (E-30-0,3). Note translation: " ... left of the entrance a skin decorated with beads, a throne, another skin decorated with beads, two carved figures and two horns for making music." (E-30-0,3). - Peter Valentin lists the objects visible on this photograph: 2 large leopard-skins made of cloth 1 large figure covered in glass beads holding a stick (?) in its hand 1 smaller figure covered in glass beads with a drinking horn and a calabash 1 king's throne with 2 figures (carrying drinking horn and skull-trophies) all covered with glass beads 1 [true!] leopard skin 2 elephant tusks a large blue-white "king's cloth" at the very back a European box (grammophone, or fog horn [is it the same one in E-30.26.051?] 1 cloth dyed uniformly with indigo. The figures and the throne perhaps from Bamum or Bamileke (PV. 02.2002).
Type
image
Format
b/w positive, paper print, gelatin-silver 12.0 x 17.0 cm.
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