"Can an invention remain new?": Alisa LaGamma on the tsesah crest
For MetCollects, Alisa LaGamma, Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge of the Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, discusses the recently acquired tsesah crest by the Bamileke peoples of the from the Cameroon Grassfields region.
Featured Artwork:
Crest (tsesah), 18th century. Cameroon, Grassfields region. Bamileke peoples. Wood, 37 x 32 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (94 x 82.6 x 29.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Acquisitions and Rogers Funds, and Anonymous, James J. Ross, and Marian Malcolm Gifts, 2017 (2017.35)
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Filmed in the exhibition
The Face of Dynasty: Royal Crests from Western Cameroon
At The Met Fifth Avenue
December 4, 2017–September 3, 2018
Other works courtesy of:
National Museum for African Art, Smithsonian Institution, gift of Walt Disney World Co., a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company
The Menil Collection, Houston
Private collection, Courtesy of McClain Gallery
African Crest (Tsesah) | Met Collects
"Can an invention remain new?": Alisa LaGamma on the tsesah crest.
Alisa LaGamma
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Alisa LaGamma
Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
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Grassfields artist
18th century