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Mask with horns "konon buene", Côte d'Ivoire, Guro, Size: H: 21 cm/31 cm (H: 8.3 inch/12.2 inch), ID: 3042201
Mask with horns "konon buene", Côte d'Ivoire, Guro, Size: H: 21 cm/31 cm (H: 8.3 inch/12.2 inch), ID: 3042201 - 2/6 Mask with horns "konon buene", Côte d'Ivoire, Guro, Size: H: 21 cm/31 cm (H: 8.3 inch/12.2 inch), ID: 3042201 - 3/6 Mask with horns "konon buene", Côte d'Ivoire, Guro, Size: H: 21 cm/31 cm (H: 8.3 inch/12.2 inch), ID: 3042201 - 4/6 Mask with horns "konon buene", Côte d'Ivoire, Guro, Size: H: 21 cm/31 cm (H: 8.3 inch/12.2 inch), ID: 3042201 - 5/6 Mask with horns "konon buene", Côte d'Ivoire, Guro, Size: H: 21 cm/31 cm (H: 8.3 inch/12.2 inch), ID: 3042201 - 6/6
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Lot 249
86th Tribal Art Auction

Mask with horns "konon buene" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Guro · ID: 3042201

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Size
H: 21 cm/31 cm
H: 8.3 inch/12.2 inch

Description

wood, slightly shiny black patina, unusual mask face, small and narrow, with projecting button eyes and elongated nose bridge, proportionally broad oval mouth with jagged inner rim, horns horizontally projecting backwards, mask face superimposed to large bowl-shaped base, inscribed on the backside “N-650”, slightly dam., abrasion of paint (nosebridge, mouth), base;
the Guro call this mask with goat horns “konon buene”. The mask type was invented by the Wan, then adopted by the Guro and Baule for the “goli” masquerade and dance.

The object Mask with horns “konon buene” with the object ID 3042201 was last part of the auction 86th Tribal Art Auction at May 27, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 249.

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Comparing literature

Fischer, Eberhard & Lorenz Homberger, Die Kunst der Guro, Elfenbeinküste, Zürich 1985, p. 197 ff.

Publications

AHDRC: 0142250

Africa
Masks

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