Head of a puppet ·  Mali, Bozo · ID: 3039981

Description

wood, brown patina, elaborately designed facial plane: stretched with fabric, stud with punched metal sheet, eyes inset with green glass, eyelashes made from real hair, movable lower jaw, rep. (breakage left ear), slight traces of abrasion

The object Head of a puppet with the object ID 3039981 was last part of the auction 82nd Tribal Art Auction at February 27, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 267.

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Comparing literature

Colleyn, Jean Paul (Hg.), Bamana, Zürich 2001, p. 76