Helmet mask "sowei" · Sierra Leone, Mende · ID: 3038340
sold
EUR 1,800
Provenance
Mary Sue & Peter Paul Rosen, USASize
H: 41 cm
H: 16.1 inch
Description
wood, matt greyish black patina, unusual “sweet” features with laughing mouth, ornamental eyebrows, scarifications and coiffure, especially elaborate worked, superstructure in shape of four identical formed seated female figures, slightly dam., cracks, missing parts (arm of a sitting figure), abrasion of paint
Comparing literature
Philips, Ruth B., Representing woman, Los Angeles 1995, p. 85 ff.