Mask "sigma" · Burkina Faso, Bwa/Ghana · ID: 3044262
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Provenance
Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, SwedenSize
H: 48 cm
H: 18.9 inch
Description
wood, pigments, metal,
These masks are from Northern Ghana, but in the formal aspects of their construction they bear some important similarities to certain Gurunsi and Bwa mask styles from Burkina Faso.
The object Mask “sigma” with the object ID 3044262 was last part of the auction 89th Tribal Art Auction at July 7, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 171.
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Comparing literature
Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 98
Exhibition
Magins Hjärta, Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, Sweden, 1997