Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo" group ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Baule · ID: 3041802

Description

wood, blackish brown patina, red and white pigment, of extremely narrow elongated form with tripartite fine grooved coiffure, slightly raised scarification marks, small round mouth opening, collection number backside “N-128”, slightly dam. (chin plug), small traces of insect caused damage backside, base

The object Portrait mask “ndoma” of the “mblo” group with the object ID 3041802 was last part of the auction 85th Tribal Art Auction at March 4, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 173 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,800.

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AHDRC: 0139787