Mask with horns "kpan pre" · Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3038906
Jan Lundberg, Malmö, Sweden
Description
wood, rich blackish brown patina, slightly shining, of narrow form with extremely lengthened nose bridge, framed by a disc-shaped beard with flat zigzag pattern, slightly dam., minor missing parts, abrasion of paint (nose, mouth), small crack (left side of the mouth), base;
belonging to the family of the “kple-kple” masks which perform to honour the buffalo god “goli”. Four pairs of masks appear, two by two, in a fixed order: first a pair of disc-faced masks (usually called “kple kple”), next a pair of animal helmet masks “goli glen”, third a pair of horned face masks “kpan pre”, and finally two human-faced masks with crested hairdos “kpan”.
The object Mask with horns “kpan pre” with the object ID 3038906 was last part of the auction 80th Tribal Art Auction at June 27, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 262.
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