Zemanek-Münster

Anthropomorphic mask

Mali, Dogon
sold EUR 2,000
Provenance
Rudolf Amtmann, Munich, Germany
Toni Dähler, Basel, Switzerland
Size
H: 44 cm
H: 17.3 inch

Description

open hollowed mouth, the teeth inset with bone splinters, eyebrows with animal hair, min. dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion, wooden socle;
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.


Comparing literature

Bilot, Alain, Masques du pays Dogon, Paris 2001, p. 101

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