Mask "kanaga" · Mali, Dogon · ID: 3039792
sold
EUR 450
Provenance
Southern German Collection (collected in situ in the late 1960’s)Size
H: 85 cm
H: 33.5 inch
Description
light wood, white, black and indigo blue pigment, leather stripes, superstructure in form of a Cross of Lorraine, bonnet from raffia fibre, rep. (breakage), fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
presumably representing the bird “kommolo tebu” with spread wings and black and white plumage, when after its shooting the hunter carved the first “kanaga”.
Comparing literature
Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Die Kunst der Dogon, Zürich 1995, p. 124