Three-faced head sculpture ·  Gabon, Mbete/Kwele/Fang · ID: 3043502

Description

wood, brown patina, kaolin, traces of red pigment, the face to the front provided with vertically incised scarification marks underneath the eyes, slightly dam., cracks, traces of insect caused damage
Possibly once serving as head piece of a reliquary ensemble. Reminding of the “ngontang” masks of the Gabon peoples.

The object Three-faced head sculpture with the object ID 3043502 was last part of the auction 88th Tribal Art Auction at March 10, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 367.

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Comparing literature

0044743 and 0007536 (comparable objects)

Publications

AHDRC: 0150590