Mask "nyanga" ·  Burkina Faso, Bobo · ID: 3032931

Description

light brown wood, partly shiny brown patina, propbably depicting a baboon, helmet-shaped calotte, protruding open mouth, hole on top of the head, pierced around the rim, min. dam., fissures, slight traces of abrasion

The object Mask “nyanga” with the object ID 3032931 was last part of the auction 69th tribal art auction at June 2, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 211.

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Comparing literature

Förster, Till, Skulptur in Westafrika, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, p. 93, ill. 4-10