Mask "mbuya" · D. R. Congo, Pende · ID: 3037041
sold
EUR 1,200
Size
H: 28 cm
H: 11.0 inch
Description
wood, red pigment, kaolin, bonnet made from raffia bast and plant fibres, characteristic traits: horizontal browline, eyes with nearly closed lids, “snub nose, pierced around the rim, fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion;
this artist has captured the “bedroom eyes” (“zanze”) believed essential to women’s power over men.
The object Mask “mbuya” with the object ID 3037041 was last part of the auction 77th tribal art auction at June 28, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 504 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,200.
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