Cameroon Beaded Shield - Large Oblong - BC03 Cool Street Performers

Street Performers

This milk jug were used for keeping milk upon milking the cow

masks like this hung in the home and were only brought out to "warm" the village atmosphere and call on beneficial forces during Bwete society initiation ceremonies

and frost resistant — in the frostier months

Cameroon Beaded Shield - Large Oblong - BC03 Cool Street PerformersHistorically used as a defensive weapon in wartime and displayed as a decorative symbol of status and wealth by the Tikar people in Cameroon. Each shield is carved from a single piece of Baobab wood a sacred wood used for medicinal and ritual purposes for centuries then covered in hundreds of hand placed beads on manila string in a circular pattern around a dimensional cluster of natural cowrie shells at the centre. These decorative shields are one of