"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)
Production Credits: Producer and Editor: Sarah Cowan Interviewer: Christopher Noey Camera: Dia Felix, Sarah Cowan Lighting: Kaelan Burkett Production Assistant: Bryan Martin Music: Austin Fisher
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
