Mask - Cameroon (No reserve price)

Mambila terracotta vase.

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Despite their small numbers, the thirty thousand Mambila (or Mambilla, Mambere, Nor, Torbi, Lagubi, Tagbo, Tongbo, Bang, Ble, Juli, Bea) (the "men", in Fulani), living in the northwestern Cameroon, have created a large number of masks and statues that are easily identifiable. Although the Mambila believe in a creator god named Chang or Nama, they worship only their ancestors. Their leaders were buried in granaries like grain because they were believed to symbolize prosperity. Desiccation cracks and gaps.