Zemanek-Münster

Mask "ntomo"

Mali, Malinke
not available anymore
Provenance
Leonard Kahan, Montclair, USA
Size
H: 64 cm
H: 25.2 inch

Description

wood, matt middle brown patina, with pointed chin, crowned by six vertical protruding horns, eyes, mouth, tattoos and decorating straps from silver metal sheet, min. dam., small missing parts (back), cracks, slight traces of abrasion, base


Comparing literature

Museum of Primitive Art (ed.), Bambara sculpture from the Western Sudan, New York 1960, ill. 105

Publications

Ward, Marshall M., African Art from the New Jersey Collections, New Jersey 1983, ill. 96

AHDRC: 0126050


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