#bamum

[folkfashion]

Bamum woman and man, Lydol and Fadil le sorcier, Cameroon

[lionofchaeronea]

Helmet mask of the Bamum people, Cameroon. Now in the World Museum, Liverpool. Photo credit: Rept0n1x/Wikimedia Commons.

[writing-system]

Bamum script Written by I. Dugast & M.D.W. Jeffreys Cameroon, 1950

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[lionofchaeronea]

Helmet mask of the Bamum people, Cameroon.  Artist unknown; before 1880.  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Photo credit: shooting_brooklyn/Wikipedia Loves Art/Wikimedia Commons.

[lionofchaeronea]

Funerary headdress (tugunga) of the Bamum people, Cameroon.  Artist unknown; late 19th century.  Now in the Brooklyn Museum.  Photo credit:  Brooklyn Museum.

[lionofchaeronea]

Carved wooden headdress of the Bamum (Bamoum) people, Cameroon.  Now in the Glenbow Museum, Calgary.

[bossdesboss]

[gravalicious]

“King Njoya of Bamum in Gala Uniform.” Photograph by Johannes Immanuel Leimenstoll, Douala, 1908. Basel Mission Archives/Basel Mission Holdings. E-30.32.002.

Source: Victoria L Rovine -  African Fashion, Global Style: histories, innovations, and ideas you can wear (2015:10)