REGION: Africa
COUNTRY: Cameroon
YEAR PRINTED: 1986
VALUE: 130 francs
This stamp, issued by the Cameroon government in 1986, is one of a set celebrating traditional masked dances. This stamp depicts a kwem dancer of the Widkum people who inhabit the Momo Department in northwest Cameroon. The kwem dance is a war dance, in which the dancer wields a short sword or club and frightening face with a totemic animal or ancestor on his head. On his ankles are rattles.
REGION: Africa
COUNTRY: Cameroon
YEAR PRINTED: 1986
VALUE: 100 francs
This stamp, issued by the Cameroon government in 1986, is one of a set celebrating traditional masked dances. This stamp depicts a kwem dancer of the Widkum people who inhabit the Momo Department in northwest Cameroon. The kwem dance is a war dance, in which the dancer wields a short sword or club and frightening face with a totemic animal or ancestor on his head. On his ankles are rattles.
REGION: Africa
COUNTRY: Cameroon
YEAR PRINTED: 1983
VALUE: 1000 Central African CFA francs
Six countries in central Africa share the same currency, the Central African CFA franc. These countries (Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon) each produce banknotes, but the banknotes are pegged at identical value and have a similar appearance. This note, produced by the Central African Economic and Monetary Union from 1978 until 1983 for Cameroon, depicts a young girl and a hut on the obverse, and on the reverse, it depicts a wooden mask of unknown type (possibly a Kwele mask from Gabon and Republic of the Congo), a wooden statue, and transportation infrastructure.
REGION: Africa
COUNTRY: Cameroon
YEAR PRINTED: 1981
VALUE: 5000 Central African CFA francs
Six countries in central Africa share the same currency, the Central African CFA franc. These countries (Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon) each produce banknotes, but the banknotes are pegged at identical value and have a similar appearance. This note, produced by the Central African Economic and Monetary Union in 1981 for Cameroon, depicts a wooden mask of unknown type and a woman carrying palm fronds on the obverse, and on the reverse, it depicts a traditional harp, a tractor plowing a field, and mineral mining conveyor bucket.
REGION: Africa
COUNTRY: Cameroon
YEAR PRINTED: 1974
VALUE: 5000 Central African CFA francs
Six countries in central Africa share the same currency, the Central African CFA franc. These countries (Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon) each produce banknotes, but the banknotes are pegged at identical value and have a similar appearance. This note, produced by the Central African Economic and Monetary Union in 1974 for Cameroon, depicts Cameroon’s President Ahidjo on the obverse with railway loading equipment, and on the reverse, it depicts a mukudj mask of the Punu people of Gabon and the Republic of Congo, along with a wooden statue and an industrial college.
REGION: Africa
COUNTRY: Cameroon
YEAR PRINTED: 1947
VALUE: 200 francs
This stamp, issued by the French colonial government in Cameroon (RF stands for République Française), depicts an aircraft engine and propeller in the background (suggesting its use as airmail, or poste aerienne) together with a Bamileke tribesman holding a spear and mask.
REGION: Africa
COUNTRY: Cameroon
YEAR PRINTED: 1973
VALUE: 100 francs
This stamp was issued by the government of Cameroon in 1973 as part of a set celebrating the traditional masks of the Bamoun (or Bamun) people.
REGION: Africa
COUNTRY: Cameroon
YEAR PRINTED: 1973
VALUE: 45 francs
This stamp was issued by the government of Cameroon in 1973 as part of a set celebrating the traditional masks of the Bamoun (or Bamun) people.
REGION: Africa
COUNTRY: Cameroon
YEAR PRINTED: 1973
VALUE: 10 francs
This stamp was issued by the government of Cameroon in 1973 as part of a set celebrating the traditional masks of the Bamoun (or Bamun) people.
REGION: Africa
COUNTRY: Cameroon
YEAR PRINTED: 1973
VALUE: 5 francs
This stamp was issued by the government of Cameroon in 1973 as part of a set celebrating the traditional masks of the Bamoun (or Bamun) people.
