Mask "ntomo", Mali, Malinke, Size: H: 64 cm (H: 25.2 inch), ID: 3042879

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Lot 212

87th Tribal Art Auction

Mask "ntomo" · Mali, Malinke · ID: 3042879

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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

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.

You can find more Masks and other popular object types on our related topic pages. You may also be interested in our page on African art.

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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