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Three Illustrious Fons and a Queen before the Old Foumban Palace
1961 · Paper, ink, watercolor, carbon; wooden frame carved by the artist
Paper: 78.7 x 96.5 cm (31 x 38 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Bamum
Artist
WA-00003111
Textile
Representation
None documented
0
Institutional Exhibitions
4
Works in Collection
6
Assets Indexed
2
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
40%
Profile Completeness
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Authority Records (1)
Field Verification (2 fields)
0 cross-verified · 2 single-source
- BiographyMuseum· 80%
- Profile imageMuseum· 80%
Source Registry (1)
- Aic ExhibitionsTier 3 · Scraped/inferred70%
About
Why this artist matters now
Bamum is a Unicode block containing the characters of stage-G Bamum script, used for modern writing of the Bamum language of western Cameroon. Characters for writing earlier orthographies are contained in a Bamum Supplement block.
Source: Aic · Trust score: 70% · Updated 3mo ago
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Canonical record
Artworks (4)
Artwork sources (2)
4 published of 4 catalogued · 1 with image
- Cleveland Museum of Art3 published
- Art Institute Chicago1 published1 img
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 3)
3 entries · 1 sources
- 1930 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1961 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 1961 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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2Collections2
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In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
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