Fire spitter mask "wanjugo" · Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3036258
sold
EUR 1,000
Provenance
Emil Storrer, Zurich, SwitzerlandEdith Hafter, Solothurn, Switzerland
Size
L: 82,5 cm
L: 32.5 inch
Description
wood, dark brown patina, painted with polychrome dots, composed of different animals, crowned by a small vessel, a human half figure and a kalao bird, rep. (breakage at the tusk), missing parts, cracks, traces of abrasion
Comparing literature
Förster, Till, Die Kunst der Senufo aus Schweizer Sammlungen, Zürich 1988, p. 57