Face mask

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Description

wood, blackish brown patina, a horizontal band of red encrusted pigment accentuating the castagnet-shaped eyes, decorative metal tags on forehead and cheeks, a beard of plant fibre and tapering wooden plugs around the chin, a row of small packages of fabric, spread with mass, around the forehead, pierced around the rim, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion, on base

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Comparing literature

Fischer, Eberhard, Himmelheber, Hans, Die Kunst der Dan, Zürich 1976, p. 68, ill. 39 Guenneguez, André et Afo, Art de la Cote-d'Ivoire et de ses voisins, Paris o.J., p. 41

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