Mask "gu" · Côte d'Ivoire, Guro · ID: 3036254
sold
EUR 4,000
Provenance
Emil Storrer, Zurich, SwitzerlandEdith Hafter, Solothurn, Switzerland
Size
H: 28,5 cm
H: 11.2 inch
Description
wood, matt patina, polychrome paint, typical narrow face with delicate nose bridge, raised scarification marks, filed incisors, coiffure with long lobes, pierced ears, min. dam., fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion
Comparing literature
Homberger, Lorenz, Fischer, Eberhard, Die Kunst der Guro, Elfenbeinküste, Zürich 1985, p. 157 f. , ill. 78