Mask "geh naw" · Liberia, Bassa · ID: 3043026
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Provenance
Ralf Lüders, Stuttgart, GermanyKetterer, Munich, 12 December 1987, lot 59
Size
H: 22 cm
H: 8.7 inch
Description
wood, brown patina, kaolin, concave vaulted facial plane with pointed chin, protruding mouth with separately carved teeth, elaborate coiffure in several lobes, metal earrings, rep. (metal clamp at the back), missing parts through insetc caused damage, cracks
The object Mask “geh naw” with the object ID 3043026 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 183.
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Publications
Dorsinville R., Meneghini M., The Bassa Mask a stranger in the house, in: Ethnologische Zeitschrift Zürich, 1, Bern, 1973, p. 38, ill. 33
AHDRC: 0129623