Col. F.C.C. Egerton collected a figure of the same size and similar stance when he was a guest of King N'jike II of Bangangté in 1935, which was sold by his daughter in these Rooms on 16 October 1979, lot 104. Clement Egerton recorded his interesting and entertaining experiences in a book African Majesty: A Record of Refuge at the Court of the King of Bangangté in the French Cameroons (1938), in which he throws light on how the Bangwa of Brain and Pollock (1970), relate to those of Bangangté about 100 miles to the south-east when he writes: At one time there was, not far away, a village called Bawok, specially famed for its sculptors. There was trouble between Bawok and the King of Bangangté and the King laid waste the place, after which the inhabitants all went away to a new village in what is now British Cameroons, taking their art with them. There was only one sculptor left in the kingdom of Bangangté, and he had not the skill of the others. He had learnt the art from his father, who was a Bawok man. Bawok is no longer on the map, but may, a century ago, have been a carving village within the Old Bangwa kingdom, and Egerton's tantalizing note fits in with the known history of the New Bangwa.