Zemanek-Münster

Plank mask "karanga" ·  Burkina Faso, Mossi · ID: 3043263

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Provenance
Helmut Gernsheim, Castagnola, Switzerland
Arendt Oetker, Berlin, Germany
Paolo Morigi, Magliaso, Switzerland
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 18 October 2014, lot 194
Size
H: 137 cm
H: 53.9 inch

Description

wood, brown patina, kaolin, dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion, water spots


The object Plank mask “karanga” with the object ID 3043263 was last part of the auction 88th Tribal Art Auction at March 10, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 174.

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Comparing literature

Roy, Christopher, Art of the Upper Volta Rivers, Paris 1987, p. 115 ff.


Publications

Galleria Arte Primitiva, Paolo Morigi, Ascona-Losone 1973, ill. 28

AHDRC: 0150374


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