Beautiful old face mask "gunye gä" · Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3045624
sold
EUR 850
Provenance
Gottfried Künzi, Oberdorf / Solothurn SwitzerlandRené Rickli, Olten, Switzerland
Size
H: 26 cm
H: 10.2 inch
Description
wood, old age patina, traces of usage
This mask type is described as “runner mask”. During dry season many villages in the surroundings of Man arrange footraces among the youth, at which the respective winner gains the right to wear the mask.
The object Beautiful old face mask “gunye gä” with the object ID 3045624 was last part of the auction 92nd Tribal Art Auction at June 29, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 79 achieved a sales price of EUR 850.
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Comparing literature
Fischer, Eberhard & Hans Himmelheber, The Arts of the Dan in West Africa, Zurich 1984, p. 35