Helmet mask of the "sande" society "ndoli jowel" · Sierra Leone, Mende · ID: 3039474
sold
EUR 1,600
Provenance
Heinz Reschke, Frankfurt, Germany (Curator at the Museum of Ethnology Frankfurt am Main; he was a scholar and assistant of the famous ethnologist Leo Frobenius from 1934-1938)Size
H: 36,5 cm
H: 14.4 inch
Description
wood, black patina, matt and shiny, of typical cylindrical shape with compressed face and neck rolls, elaborated coiffure with crowning knob and horn emblems at the nape, slightly dam., minor missing parts, abrasion of paint, fine cracks
The object Helmet mask of the “sande” society “ndoli jowel” with the object ID 3039474 was part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction on October 31, 2015. The object with the lot number 173 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,600 with an asking price of EUR 1,200.
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