Mask "deangle" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3034531

Description

wood, brown patina, it is very likely that this mask originally wore a kind of bonnet or coiffure because of the darker and smoother patina in the area of the forehead, pierced around the rim, min. dam., traces of insect caused damage, metal socle;
“deangle” literally means “joking, laughing” mask figure. The “dean” mask characters belong to the circumcision camps (“mbon”) of young boys and girls. They act as a mediator between the camp and the village.They are not accompanied by musicians and they are not singing and dancing, but moving gracefully and joking with the women, begging them to send plenty of food to the camp.

The object Mask “deangle” with the object ID 3034531 was last part of the auction 72nd tribal art auction at March 9, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 297 achieved a sales price of EUR 2,000.

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