Mask ·  Mali, Malinke · ID: 3036502

Description

wood, dark brown patina, metal sheet, pink pigment, crowned by nine vertical projecting horns and metal sheet applications, large parts of the face decorated with punched silver sheet, the area of the nose provided with resin-like mask inset with cowrie snails, framed by small ears with metal earrings, pierced around the rim, min. dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion and corrosion, base

The object Mask with the object ID 3036502 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 150.

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Comparing literature

Museum of Primitive Art (ed.), Bambara sculpture from the Western Sudan, New York 1960, p. 60, ill. 105