Anthropomorphic mask

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Description

wood, blackish brown patina, encrusted in some areas, board-shaped base, the actual narrow mask face superimposed, half-spherical forehead, carved with an indicated second face, the teeth inset with wooden splinters, chin plug, slightly dam., cracks, paint rubbed off, water spots, on base;
depicting a person called “the hunter”. The masks are carved by the person who wears it lateron. It is completed by a plant fibre costume which covers the most part of the body.

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Comparing literature

Bilot, Alain, Masques du pays Dogon, Paris 2001, p. 152 Imperato, Pascal James, Dogon cliff dwellers, New York o. J., p. 36, ill. 9

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