Mask with hinged jaw

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Description

wood, dark brown patina, metal tags, eye and forehead zone stud with metal sheet, tube of fabric sewn with nassa snails around the forehead, coiffure, beard and moustache made from real hair, metal teeth, pierced around the rim, min. dam., slight trraces of abrasion, base

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Expertise

Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, 22.04.2004, Munich, Germany

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Comparing literature

Meneghini, Mario, Collecting African Art in Liberia and Neighboring Countries 1963 - 1989, o.O. 2006, p. 93, ill. 72

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