Year of Object(s) Creation: 1800 (approximate)
Estimated Value ($USD):
Object Type(s): Carving, Sculpture
Object Material(s): wood
Provenience Nation: Cameroon
Provenience Location: Douala district
Year Removed from Findspot: 1884

Provenance
Start Year: 1885
End Year:
Circumstance of Acquisition: Max Buchner donated his loot to the Royal Ethnographic Collection (Now the Museum Fünf Kontinente)
Nation: Germany
Location: Museum Fünf Kontinente in Munich
Start Year: 1884
End Year: 1885
Circumstance of Acquisition: Max Buchner (German consul) secured the Tangue during a German attack
Nation: Germany
Location:
Start Year:
End Year:
Circumstance of Acquisition: Owned by Lock Priso (Head of the royal Bele Bele family)
Nation: Cameroon
Location: Douala district

Cameroonian Tangue Figurehead


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Case Status: Object(s) not relinquished
Year Claim Initiated: 1990 (approximate)
Year Claim Resolved:
Means of Resolution: Inquiry/Demand

Complainant Name: Prince Kum'a Ndumbe III (Unofficial heir of Lock Priso)
Complainant Nation: Cameroon
Complainant Nation Economy: Developing
Complainant Type: Private: Individual

Respondent Name: Museum Fünf Kontinente (Five Continents Museum)
Respondent Nation: Germany
Respondent Nation Economy: Developed
Respondent Type: Public: Institution

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Editor's Notes:
Clarification Notes . The Tangue adorned a 19th-century royal vessel. . The Tangue, now in Munich's Museum Fünf Kontinente, was rediscovered in the 1990s, but the case remains unresolved. . The case remains unresolved because Prince Kum'a Ndumbe III has shown interest in reclaiming the Tangue, but, although he is Lock Priso's grandson, he is not necessarily the official successor of Lock Priso. In contrast, the official head of the Bele Bele family, Paul Mbappe, has barely shown interest in reclaiming the Tangue. Edited by Keli Fisher