Mask "gelede" · Nigeria, Yoruba · ID: 3033945
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Provenance
Gerbrand Luttik, Soest, The NetherlandsSize
L: 23 cm
L: 9.1 inch
Description
wood, middle brown patina, kaolin, indigo blue paint, helmet-shaped, the facial features concentrated on a small area, provided with drilled pupils and diamond-shaped scarification marks, tonsure-like coiffure, slightly dam., minor missing parts, crack
The object Mask “gelede” with the object ID 3033945 was last part of the auction 71st tribal art auction at November 24, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 296.
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