Face mask ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3037958

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.

The object Face mask with the object ID 3037958 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 182 achieved a sales price of EUR 450.

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