Mask · Côte d'Ivoire, Dan/Yacouba · ID: 3042961
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Size
H: 27,5 cm
H: 10.8 inch
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, with raised forehead ridge and serrated coiffure, dominated by a big protruding nose, beak-like projection underneath (mostly missing), missing parts (beak, back), fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion, base
Comparing literature
Fischer, Eberhard & Hans Himmelheber, The Arts of the Dan in West Africa, Zurich 1984, p. 77, ill. 84 Fischer, Eberhard & Hans Himmelheber, Die Kunst der Dan, Zürich 1976, p. 125, ill. 97