Mask with hinged jaw · Côte d'Ivoire, Wobé · ID: 3036128
sold
EUR 1,800
Size
H: 28 cm
H: 11.0 inch
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
Expertise
Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, 22.04.2004, Munich, Germany
Comparing literature
Meneghini, Mario, Collecting African Art in Liberia and Neighboring Countries 1963 - 1989, o.O. 2006, p. 93, ill. 72