Mask "wan balinga" · Burkina Faso, Mossi · ID: 3042378
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Provenance
French Collection (1970s)Size
H: 24 cm
H: 9.4 inch
Description
heavy wood, pokerwork, vaulted calotte with human facial features, crowned by a rooster’s comb, decorated with geometrical ornaments in pokerwork, dam., missing parts through insect caused damage, cracks, traces of abrasion
The object Mask “wan balinga” with the object ID 3042378 was last part of the auction 86th Tribal Art Auction at May 27, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 224.
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