Lot 33
BAMILEKE STOOL
CAMEROON
African & Oceanic Art and Antiquities
Auction: 27 November 2018 at 11:00 GMT
£550
Description
carved wood, the circular seat supported by three rows of carved bats heads, with a ring base beneath
Dimensions
36cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
Julien Harris (1910 - 2011), Scotland. Acquired in situ 1930, thence by descent.
This piece was acquired on a journey across West Africa that Harris undertook in 1930 alongside Geoffrey Gorer and Francois (Feral) Benga, a research trip which culminated in the book "Africa Dances". Benga was a Senegalese dancer at the Folies Bergère in Paris; known at the time as the male Josephine Baker and an icon of the Harlem Renaissance. Gorer, on the back of this work, went on to become a prominent anthropologist.