Beak mask "ge gon" ("gägon") · Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3040695
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Provenance
Walter Kaiser, Stuttgart, GermanyHelmut Zake, Heidelberg, Germany
Size
H: 27 cm
H: 10.6 inch
Description
wood, silver metal sheet, leather label with inscription “62-2-956”, rep., lower jaw missing
The object Beak mask “ge gon” (“gägon”) with the object ID 3040695 was last part of the auction Voyage Tribal Art - Live Online Auction at May 23, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 137.
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Comparing literature
Homberger, Lorenz, Masken der Wè und Dan, Elfenbeinküste, Zürich 1997, p. 78
Publications
AHDRC: 0139797