RED COLORED TRADE BEADS AFRICAN FLYWHISK INSECT CHASER BAMILEKE STATUE ETHNIX

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RED COLORED TRADE BEADS AFRICAN FLYWHISK INSECT CHASER BAMILEKE STATUE ETHNIX:
$350.00

FLY WHISK RED TRADE BEADS COVERED FIGURE FACE FLY PRESTIGE INSECTCHASERType of Object: BEADED FLYWHISKEthnic Group: BAMILEKE/BAMUNCountry of Origin: CAMEROONMaterials: MULTICOLORED BEADS (Mostly RED)Approximate Age: 50+ years
Dimensions: 24.0\" by 4.0\" by 3.0\"Weight: 24 grams; 0.6 lbs; 0.85 oz
Overall Condition: Excellent conditionAdditional Information: Source: Ask.com

MostBamileke art (and the work of other kingdoms of the Cameroon Grasslands)relates to kings and important chiefs, who defined their power by the displayof prestige objects during important ceremonies. Stools and utilitarian objects were among the mostimportant of these objects. The motifs include leopards, human figures, heads, spiders, lizards, other subjects plus abstract designs..GLASS trade BEADSembellish the mostimportant royal properties.... This utilitarian art is a flywhisk/insect chaser. Chiefs and tribal leaders needs this fly chaser when they are seated during ceremonies.

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As ETHNIX has become an established physical entity on Broadway in the heart of Manhattan, its origin had its inspiration from the Secret Museum of Mankind, which was an anonymous collection of ethnographic and risque images of earths inhabitants throughout the four corners of the earth published by Manhattan house in the 1930′s. This fascination in my youth cast the die for my future worldwide travels and ethnix was to become the funding source for research and the collection of artifacts. As one reviewer described the book… The Secret Museum of Mankind reveals a lost world-and -the fading faces of the indigenous humanity that once covered the globe. Adventurer transport the reader to another era. The native cultures of America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the islands of the seas were so fascinating as they existed upon the book’s first publication nearly a century ago. Here revealed, by a thousand black-and-white photographs with captions that reflect the unabashed curiosity and marked sensationalism of the early-twentieth-century are the astonishing variety of rituals, religions, customs, physical decorations, and dress of the world’s native cultures, the elaborate costuming, the intricate and painstaking bodily manipulations, the fascinating practices of the cultures whose native expressions and lifestyles have unfortunately suffered the destructive advancing hands of the twentieth century.