Chimpanzee mask "kagle" · Liberia, Dan/Kran · ID: 3041874
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Provenance
Louis Pieter Cornelis van Rijn, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Galerie Kephri)Ger E. Eeuwe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Size
H: 29 cm
H: 11.4 inch
Description
wood, partly encrusted brown patina, remains of pigments, of characteristic form with movable jaw, upper jaw with remains of inset wooden splinters and hair, eyes accentuated by strips of metal sheet, dam., missing parts through insect caused damage, traces of abrasion, base
The object Chimpanzee mask “kagle” with the object ID 3041874 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 109.
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Publications
Rijn, Louis Pieter Cornelis van, Het geliefde Dan masker, In: Antiekwereld (January 1979), p. 45
AHDRC: 0067515