Cameroon grasslands
Bamum

Horn, cloth, fiber, cowrie shells, red beads
ca. Early 20th Century
Length: 21 inches
Aerophone – Lip Vibrated – Horn

Bamum traditionally carved side-blown trumpet/horn with wooden figural person (anthropomorphic) sitting on top with an extensive head piece. The grassland region, in south-west Cameroon, is a hilly and mountainous area covered by an equatorial forest in the south and a savannah in the north.