Face mask "gu" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Guro · ID: 3023370

Description

wood, grounding in yellow ochre, painted in turquoise, black and red, triangular base with drilled holes around the rim, carved with a narrow face with tapering chin, crowned by a coiffure in three rising lobes with toothed superstructure on top, dam., minor missing parts because of old insect caused damage (brow, coiffure, superstructure), rep. (backside on the right, tooth on top)

The object Face mask “gu” with the object ID 3023370 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 119.

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Comparing literature

Homberger, Lorenz, Fischer, Eberhard, Die Kunst der Guro, Zürich 1985, p. 156