Mask "ntomo" · Mali, Malinke · ID: 3042879
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Provenance
Leonard Kahan, Montclair, USASize
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. 96AHDRC: 0126050