Expertised work
Maternity figure
- Culture
- Bangwa
- Type
- Statue
- Period
- Before 1900
- Material
- Hardwood with brown patina
- Dimensions
- 62 × 18 × 16 cm
- Condition
- Good; wear from use and old drying cracks
- Provenance
- Private collection in Cameroon before 1960, then a European collection; acquisition documents from 1974
- Opinion
- Probable attribution to a nineteenth-century Bangwa workshop; high degree of certainty
- Reservations
- Visual and documentary examination; no laboratory analysis at this stage.
- Bibliography
- Comparison with published pieces from the same stylistic area.