Lot: 215

Whistle / flute

Cameroon Grassfields, Bamenda

Provenance	Size	Starting price / estimated price
John & Nicole Dintenfass, New York, USA Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 27 May 2017, Lot 350	H: 11 inch	1200 EUR

wood,

Men play this type of whistle when dancing "ndang", a dance performed by men and women when, for example, a new wife arrives in her husband's compound.

Brincard, Marie-Therese, Sounding forms, Washington D.C. 1989, p. 170, ill. 141

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