Zemanek-Münster

Mask

Mali, Malinke
not available anymore
Provenance
Michel Vanderbroke, Geneva, Switzerland
Alfons 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

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