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