Face mask · Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3037958
sold
EUR 450
Size
H: 28 cm
H: 11.0 inch
Description
wood, matt greyish brown patina, kaolin, encrustations with camwood powder, decorating tags, four animal teeth (most of them missing), red fabric across the diamond-shaped mouth, a tube of fabric embroidered with cowrie snails around the head, the face enclosed by abundant beard and coiffure of real hair (braided, respectively formed to spherical puffs), sacrificial traces (feathers) above the forehead, slightly dam.