Antelope mask "walu" · Mali, Dogon · ID: 3051837

Name: Antelope mask "walu"
SKU: 3051837
Price: 2500 EUR
Availability: SoldOut

sold EUR 2,500

Provenance

Galerie von Miller, Frankfurt, Germany

Size

H: 77 cm

H: 30.3 inch

Description

wood, pigments, base

The mask appears during the “dama” funeral celebrations, which take place every five years and feature up to 400 masks.

Her dance is meant to commemorate an occurrence in the mythology of the Dogon, in which the creator God “amma” entrusts the antelope “walu” to protect the sun from the access of the fox “yurugu”.

The object Antelope mask “walu” with the object ID 3051837 was last part of the auction Auction 104 at April 12, 2025 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 266 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,500.

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