Beautiful old face mask "gunye gä", Côte d'Ivoire, Dan, Size: H: 26 cm (H: 10.2 inch), ID: 3045624

Beautiful old face mask "gunye gä", Côte d'Ivoire, Dan, Size: H: 26 cm (H: 10.2 inch), ID: 3045624 - 2/5

Beautiful old face mask "gunye gä", Côte d'Ivoire, Dan, Size: H: 26 cm (H: 10.2 inch), ID: 3045624 - 3/5

Beautiful old face mask "gunye gä", Côte d'Ivoire, Dan, Size: H: 26 cm (H: 10.2 inch), ID: 3045624 - 4/5

Beautiful old face mask "gunye gä", Côte d'Ivoire, Dan, Size: H: 26 cm (H: 10.2 inch), ID: 3045624 - 5/5

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Lot 79

92nd Tribal Art Auction

Beautiful old face mask "gunye gä" · Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3045624

sold EUR 850

Provenance

Gottfried Künzi, Oberdorf / Solothurn Switzerland
René 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.

Comparing literature

Fischer, Eberhard & Hans Himmelheber, The Arts of the Dan in West Africa, Zurich 1984, p. 35

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