Big mask · Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3033325
sold
EUR 700
Provenance
Ladislas Segy, New York, USAHarald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1979)
Size
H: 24 cm
H: 9.4 inch
Description
wood, blackish grey encrusted patina, darkened kaolin, sacrificial traces (feathers), with narrow slit eyes, grooved chaplet and a large protruding mouth, dam., minor missing parts, partly spread with mass, traces of old age;
presumably belonging to the mask figure “ganwrewrä”, which performed in the circumcision camps and belonged to the “go” society.
Comparing literature
Fischer, Eberhard, Himmelheber, Hans, Die Kunst der Dan, Zürich 1976, ill. 103