Anthropomorphic mask · Mali, Dogon · ID: 3034752
sold
EUR 2,000
Provenance
Rudolf Amtmann, Munich, GermanyToni 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