Buffalo mask "mishi koun" · Mali, Bamana · ID: 3052102
Sold
EUR 600
Provenance
Lore Huber, Sinsheim, GermanySize
H: 58 cm
H: 22.8 inch
Description
wood, pigments,
It is the Bougoumi region that villagers gather each year to celebrate the end of the dry season, through masked dances and abundant comsumption of beer and palm wine. The mask “mishi kun” is the first to come on stage before other zoomorophic masks.
Comparing literature
Massa, Gabriel, Masques Animaux d' Afrique de l'Ouest, Sepia 1995