Mask "tankagle" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3035237

Description

wood, blackish brown patina, traces of kaolin, four teeth inserted, metal earring, the face framed by a coiffure of plaited plant fibre strings, pierced around the rim, old collection number handwritten on the backside: “G 62-2-94”, min. dam. (nose tip), paint rubbed off (eye brows, facial contours), rep. (two breakages backside at the upper rim), minor scratches

The object Mask “tankagle” with the object ID 3035237 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 151.

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Comparing literature

Fischer, Eberhard & Hans Himmelheber, Die Kunst der Dan, Zürich 1976, p. 67