Face mask · Tanzania, Nyamwesi · ID: 3035160
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Provenance
French CollectionSize
H: 30,5 cm
H: 12.0 inch
Description
light wood, the facial plane dyed with red pigment, coiffure, pierced eyes and mouth accentuated by black paint, originally inset teeth of various materials (silver metal, bone splinters) now missing, slightly dam., missing parts backside at the rim, paint rubbed off
The object Face mask with the object ID 3035160 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 451.
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