Mask "ntomo" · Mali, Malinke · ID: 3042879
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
The object Mask “ntomo” with the object ID 3042879 was last part of the auction 87th Tribal Art Auction at November 11, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 212.
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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