Portrait Figure of Metang, the 10th King of Batufam

1. Royal Palace, Batoufam, Cameroon by 1925 [in situ photographs in Pierre Harter, 1986]. Unknown owner, Belgium, by 1997; sold, Christies, New York, Nov. 20, 1997, sale 8780, lot 110 as A Highly Important Cameroon Grasslands Male Royal Figure, to the Art Institute.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Raymond Lecoq, Les Bamiléké, Une Civilisation Africaine (Paris: Éditions Africaines, 1953), figs. 92-93.
• Pierre Harter, Arts Anciens du Cameroon (Arnouville: Arts d’Afrique Noire, 1986), pp. 54-57 (in situ from 1925, 1947, 1957).
• Kathleen Bickford Berzock, “African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, African Arts, vol. 32, no. 4 (Winter, 1999), pp. 18-35; 32 (ill.).
• Constantine Petridis et al., Speaking of Objects: African Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2020), cat. no. 50, 124-125 (ill.).
• Y. Biro and C. Petridis (eds.). Les arts africains histoire et dynamique (Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2025), p. 411 (ill.).

Headdress

Art Institute of Chicago

Vessel

Art Institute of Chicago

Feather Headdress

Art Institute of Chicago

Dance Hat

Art Institute of Chicago

Prestige Hat

Art Institute of Chicago

Man’s Hat (Ntamp)

Art Institute of Chicago

Container for Ritual Healing (Itinate or Kwandalowa)

Art Institute of Chicago

Container for Ritual Healing (Itinate or Kwandalowa)

Art Institute of Chicago

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