Mask of a foreigner "katoyo" ·  Angola, Chokwe · ID: 3042021

Description

wood, brown patina, red pigment, black paint, pointed nose and protruding chin caricaturing Europeans, tube-shaped knotted costume, strips of animal skin, magical accessory: grass fibre and metal sheet pendants, various drilled holes, traces of old age, abrasion of paint, cracks;
in public performances “katoyo” helped Chokwe communities to cope with the presence of outsiders and their new forms of political influence.

The object Mask of a foreigner “katoyo” with the object ID 3042021 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 466.

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