Big mask · Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3033325
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1979)
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.
The object Big mask with the object ID 3033325 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 112 achieved a sales price of EUR 700.
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Comparing literature
Fischer, Eberhard, Himmelheber, Hans, Die Kunst der Dan, Zürich 1976, ill. 103