Mask with hinged jaw · Guinea, Guerze · ID: 3023371
sold
EUR 1,500
Provenance
Paolo Morigi, Lugano, Switzerland (collected in situ in the region of Lofa Country/Liberia)Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1967)
Size
H: 33 cm
H: 13.0 inch
Description
wood, blackish brown patina, encrusted with kaolin, jaw fixed by cord material, beard of animal hair, the area of eyes and beard spread with blackish mass, slightly dam., abrasion, pierced around the rim (partly broken), old collection label on the back “Morigi Lugano No. 545”
The object Mask with hinged jaw with the object ID 3023371 was last part of the auction 70th tribal art auction at September 8, 2012 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 90 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,500.
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