Chimpanzee mask "kagle" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3034974

Description

wood, partly encrusted patina, pigment remains, nails, a snout-like protruding open mouth with a thick fleshy tongue below, punched circle ornaments, pierced around the rim, min. dam., missing parts, cracks, traces of abrasion, socle;
important requisites of the mask dancer are bundles of hooked branches, used to annoy the audience. According to the hooked branch “ka” the mask figure is called “kagle”. All “kagle” mask figures have proper names, some are called “klua”, according to the chimpanzee, others bare the name of some animal or certain activities.

The object Chimpanzee mask “kagle” with the object ID 3034974 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 182.

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Comparing literature

Fischer, Eberhard, Himmelheber, Hans, Die Kunst der Dan, Zürich 1976, p. 112, ill. 84