Mask · Mali, Malinke · ID: 3038798
not available anymore
Provenance
Michel Vanderbroke, Geneva, SwitzerlandAlfons Bermel, Berlin, Germany
Size
H: 42,5 cm
H: 16.7 inch
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, metal sheet, pink pigment, superstructure with nine prong-like projections and metal applications, large parts of the face stud with punched silver metal sheet, resin-like mass with cowrie snails in the nose area (partly missing), metal earrings, min. dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion and corrosion, base
Comparing literature
Museum of Primitive Art (ed.), Bambara sculpture from the Western Sudan, New York 1960, p. 60, ill. 105