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Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo"- group ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3038372

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Provenance
Claude Michalak, Paris, France
Apollinaire Ocrisse
Size
H: 33 cm
H: 13.0 inch

Description

wood, matt shiny blackish brown patina, decorating tags, bean-shaped eyes, various kinds of scarifications: burls in rectangular compartments, thorn-shaped and incised tattoos, massive tripartite coiffure with ornamental arranged ears, emerging from the forehead, slightly dam. (eyes), drilled holes around the rim partly broken out, abrasion of paint


The object Portrait mask “ndoma” of the “mblo”- group with the object ID 3038372 was last part of the auction 79th Tribal Art Auction at March 21, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 169.

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