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Fire spitter mask "wanyugo", Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo, Size: H:31 cm L: 86 cm (H:12.2 inch L: 33.9 inch), ID: 3040180
Fire spitter mask "wanyugo", Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo, Size: H:31 cm L: 86 cm (H:12.2 inch L: 33.9 inch), ID: 3040180 - 2/4 Fire spitter mask "wanyugo", Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo, Size: H:31 cm L: 86 cm (H:12.2 inch L: 33.9 inch), ID: 3040180 - 3/4 Fire spitter mask "wanyugo", Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo, Size: H:31 cm L: 86 cm (H:12.2 inch L: 33.9 inch), ID: 3040180 - 4/4
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Lot 353
82nd Tribal Art Auction

Fire spitter mask "wanyugo" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3040180

sold EUR 3,300
Size
H:31 cm
L: 86 cm
H:12.2 inch
L: 33.9 inch

Description

wood, partly shiny brown patina, remains of pigments, composed of different animals (crocodile jaw, wart hog fangs, mighty buffalo horns), crowned by a small vessel and two zoomorphic figures (hornbill, chamaeleon?), rep. (breakage right horn), cracks, small missing parts through insect caused damage, traces of abrasion

The object Fire spitter mask “wanyugo” with the object ID 3040180 was last part of the auction 82nd Tribal Art Auction at February 27, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 353 achieved a sales price of EUR 3,300.

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Comparing literature

Goldwater, Robert, Senufo Sculpture from West Africa, Greenwich 1964, ill. 52

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