Face mask ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3034083

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

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