Mask ·  Burkina Faso, Nunuma · ID: 3034741

Description

wood, encrusted patina, polychrome paint, protruding forehead, facial features in geometrical formes, accentuated by changing colours, inset wooden sticks and a plant fibre cord for fixation with the mouth at the back, min. dam., fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
the masks of the Gurunsi group show the contrast between the cultural area of the village and the surrounding wilderness. Most of the masks show beings from the wilderness in an animalic or fantastic shape not visible for humans.

The object Mask with the object ID 3034741 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 154 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,500.

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Comparing literature

Förster, Till, Skulptur in Westafrika, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, p. 64, 2-15