Auction 104 After sale
Zemanek-Münster

Face mask "gu"

Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
not available anymore
Provenance
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany, collected in situ 1977
Size
H: 40 cm
H: 15.7 inch

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)


Comparing literature

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

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