Mask "mbuya" · D. R. Congo, Pende · ID: 3039806
Hans Dietrich Rielau, Hösbach, Germany
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
The object Mask “mbuya” with the object ID 3039806 was last part of the auction 82nd Tribal Art Auction at February 27, 2016 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 207 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,800.
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Comparing literature
Hahner-Herzog, Iris, Das Zweite Gesicht, Genf, München, New York 1997, ill. 81