Helmet mask "lipiko" ·  Mozambique, Makonde · ID: 3035286

Description

wood, lusterless reddish brown patina, unusual narrow face with angular chin and characteristic formed mouth, bulging eyebrows and slanting eyes, the face covered with incised patterns and emblems (stylized crocodile on the temples), deepend compartment with remains of blackish mass, where real hair originally was inserted, slightly dam., crack from the forehead to the back of the head, breakage diagonal across the forehead, probably rep., metal base

The object Helmet mask “lipiko” with the object ID 3035286 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 460 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,800.

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