Mask "kagle" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Kran · ID: 3036917

Description

wood, brown patina, prominent projecting lower jaw, pierced around the rim, rep. (breakages at the projections), slight traces of abrasion, base;
used to annoy the audience. According to the hooked branch “ka”, the mask is called “kagle”. The mask figures used to wear a wig of shreds or cotton threads and a puffed raffia fiber skirt (holes for attachment still visible). Its function is to enrage the audience, which is why the dancer annoys the people with wooden sticks.

The object Mask “kagle” with the object ID 3036917 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 215.

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Comparing literature

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Lexikon Afrikanische Kunst und Kultur, München, Berlin 1994, p. 119