Mask · Burkina Faso, Winiama · ID: 3038566
Description
wood, greyish brown patina, heavy encrustations, metal pins, bulging mask face with chin plug and crest, coated by a thick layer of encrusted sacrificial patina, still visible: a broad grinning mouth and geometrical patterns, plug-like projection at the back of the half figure, dam., surface structure strongly marked by insect caused damage and weathering, missing parts, cracks, rep. (the half figures right arm), base
The object Mask with the object ID 3038566 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 248.
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Comparing literature
Förster, Till, Skulptur in Westafrika, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, p. 69, ill. 2-28
Exhibition
Afrika speaks, Las Vegas Art Museum, 1998