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Small bird head mask, D. R. Congo, Luba, Size: H: 10,5 cm/26 cm (with feather ornament and beard) (H: 4.1 inch/10.2 inch (with feather ornament and beard)), ID: 3039865
Small bird head mask, D. R. Congo, Luba, Size: H: 10,5 cm/26 cm (with feather ornament and beard) (H: 4.1 inch/10.2 inch (with feather ornament and beard)), ID: 3039865 - 2/4 Small bird head mask, D. R. Congo, Luba, Size: H: 10,5 cm/26 cm (with feather ornament and beard) (H: 4.1 inch/10.2 inch (with feather ornament and beard)), ID: 3039865 - 3/4 Small bird head mask, D. R. Congo, Luba, Size: H: 10,5 cm/26 cm (with feather ornament and beard) (H: 4.1 inch/10.2 inch (with feather ornament and beard)), ID: 3039865 - 4/4
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Lot 228
82nd Tribal Art Auction

Small bird head mask ·  D. R. Congo, Luba · ID: 3039865

sold EUR 2,000
Provenance
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, Germany
Hans Dietrich Rielau, Hösbach, Germany
Size
H: 10,5 cm/26 cm (with feather ornament and beard)
H: 4.1 inch/10.2 inch (with feather ornament and beard)

Description

light wood, remains of dark brown patina and kaolin, with open beak and carved out tongue, crowned by crest and feather ornament, drilled holes around rim, with long projecting plant fibres attached, slightly dam. (beak tip), abrasion of paint, base;
present miniature mask is over one hundred years old and it has been in Europe for over fifty years.

Comparing literature

Felix, Marc L., Beauty and the beasts, Brussels 2003, p. 93, ill. 130

Publications

Rielau, Hans Dietrich, Afrikanische Miniaturen, Norderstedt 2011, p. 10
Africa
Masks

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