Zemanek-Münster

Mask "mbuya"

D. R. Congo, Pende
sold EUR 1,800
Provenance
Lempertz, Brussels, 25 March 1992, lot 245
Hans 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

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