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Ancient bust of a female ancestor eyema-byeri.
Fang Mabea, South Cameroon.
H. cm. 26,8.
 
Second half of the 19th century, around 1890.
 
Provenience:
Museum Umlauff, Hamburg (1869-1943).
German collection around 1910.
Galerie Alex Vömel, Düsseldorf, 1965.
E. and R. Anspach collection since 1967 (Congo ?).
Allan Stone collection (Northern Luba).
Galerie Patrik Fröhlich, Zurich.
 
Exhibitions:
Museum of Primitive Art, New York, in “African Tribal Sculpture from the collection of Ruth and Ernst Anspach”, 1968. Page 22 of the catalog.