Mask · Mali, Malinke · ID: 3038798
Alfons Bermel, Berlin, Germany
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
The object Mask with the object ID 3038798 was last part of the auction 82nd Tribal Art Auction at February 27, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 279.
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Comparing literature
Museum of Primitive Art (ed.), Bambara sculpture from the Western Sudan, New York 1960, p. 60, ill. 105