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Anthropo-zoomorphic mask with horns, Nigeria, Afo, Size: H: 62 cm (H: 24.4 inch), ID: 3051564
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3051564
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Anthropo-zoomorphic mask with horns ·  Nigeria, Afo · ID: 3051564

Price EUR 2,000
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Provenance
Werner Kißling (1952-2020), Heltersberg, Germany
Size
H: 62 cm
H: 24.4 inch

Description

wood, tripartite (horns worked separately, fixed with nails), pigments,

There are small remnants of former polychrome painting with pigments in bright colours (red, indigo blue) on the mask. Particularly striking are the radial incisions on both sides of the nostrils and the corners of the eyes and mouth.

Elsy Leuzinger collected a formally similar mask from the Afo on site and called it a bush cow mask (cf. Leuzinger, 1972, p. 220, N 25).

Comparing literature

Leuzinger, Elsy, Die Kunst von Schwarz-Afrika, Recklinghausen 1972, p. 220, N 25

Publications

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst in Deutschen Privatsammlungen, München 1973, p. 193, ill. 266; Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst, München 1975, 171, Fig. 231 (as a drawing)

AHDRC: 0097222

Africa
Masks

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