Mask "mbuya" · D. R. Congo, Pende · ID: 3039806
sold
EUR 1,800
Provenance
Lempertz, Brussels, 25 March 1992, lot 245Hans Dietrich Rielau, Hösbach, Germany
Size
H: 39 cm
H: 15.4 inch
Description
wood, matt patina, polychrome paint, tongue-shaped beard, enclosed by grass fibre bundles, bonnet of coarse sacking embroidered with bast fibres, min. dam., traces of insect caused damage, cracks, slight traces of abrasion
Comparing literature
Hahner-Herzog, Iris, Das Zweite Gesicht, Genf, München, New York 1997, ill. 81