@2manybooks Omg, wow, you're the best! Thanks, will contact them.
First and foremost thank you all for the valuable information! I've sent an email to someone who has a long history with Kurumba masks and I'm...
[ATTACH] They have this one in their collection. 'Obtaining journey' April 21 1969 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11840/1132650 Trying to find out...
@2manybooks She and her husband were regular visitors of the museum of land en volkenkunde, which is now called wereldmuseum Rotterdam. So much so...
Yes, you're right about the blue. Her husband wrote it down, and I assume the price and date are what he paid for it instead of a real taxation?...
Ooh, now we have a mystery. It was gifted to me by a widow in her 80's. All the info I got with it was written on the back of a picture of the...
Yeah, Occam's razor sliced with ease through my last sliver of hope of it being some legendary forgotten artifact :joyful: Still a nice piece of...
Ooh, thanks, very interesting. Since it's 50+ years old and not super conventional for the Kurumba, it's more likely to be intended as a souvenir?...
Thank you @Any Jewelry such a warm welcome! And lol, felt like it could use a snack. After digging through hundreds of pages on africartmarket it...
It looks very much like a Kurumbe headdress to me, yet I can't find a single example with the long curled horns like this. The antelope masks...
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