Description : Standing male figure multiple views available! Cameroon, Kaka wood, brown encrusted patina, a compact body with broad and square shoulders rising from extremely short legs and extensive feet, the arms lengthened and the fan-shaped hands accentuating the male gender, the round head carved with a long beard and a horn-shaped projection on top, flat incised facial features, coated with thick encrusted patina, slightly dam., minor missing parts (horn-shaped crest), on plate, the Kaka are a small ethnical group of around 18000 people, living in the western Cameroon, along the Donga River. They are related with their southern Tikar neighbours and share certain customs with them. The present figure is an ancestor effigy, for ancestor veneration has a place of prime importance for them. It is supervised by wantop, one of the members of the chieftains counsel, within the framework of the liturgies of the mbir male secret society. Through the great Kaka works, we can see one of the centres of the great African expressionist movement that extends from the Bénué to the Cameroonian Grassfields. The objects known so far are mostly covered with a thick patina of soot, and as a rule are male figures, as is the case with present figure. H: 42 cm, (5422/001) H: 16.5 inch Provenance Dr. Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, Munich, Germany Pierre Dartevelle, Brussels, Belgium Alain Naoum, Brussels, Belgium Private Collection, Belgium Literature Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Encyclopedia of African Art and Culture, München 2009, p. 314
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