Mask ·  Togo, Ewe/Fon · ID: 3035321

Description

wood, coated with a thick encrusted layer of kaolin and greyish brown patina, a wide facial plane with the facial features concentrated on a rather small area, the eye-zone enclosed by c-shaped ear conches, crowned by a flat head crest in openwork design, vaulted by two snakes with curved bodies arranged opposite to each other, sacrificial traces (head), slightly dam. (mouth, ears), crack/breakage (head), metal socle;
reminding of the Voodoo terracottas “kronkronbali” of the Ewe/Fon, which used to be placed on ancestor altars.

The object Mask with the object ID 3035321 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 201.

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