Animal mask (Ape) ·  Tanzania, Mwera · ID: 3029125

Description

wood, dark brown patina, brows of real hair, dottet scarification marks, plant fibre cord (for fixing the mask with the mouth), slightly dam., minor missing parts (snout, rim backside), on metal base;
the Mwera are a small ethnical group living in the south-eastern coastal back-country of Tanzania. Their works can only hardly be differentiated from masks and figures of the neighbouring Makonde.

The object Animal mask (Ape) with the object ID 3029125 was last part of the auction 68th tribal art auction at March 3, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 497 achieved a sales price of EUR 800.

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Publications

Schulte-Bahrenberg, Ralf (Hg.), Tansania, Stuttgart 2007, p. 93, ill. 3