Two-faced helmet mask ·  Gabon, Tsogho/Fang · ID: 3039696

Description

light wood, kaolin, black colour accents, coiffure from cropped plant fibre bunches, nearly identical faces with delicate curved eyebrows, mark on the forehead and cross emblems on the cheeks, the cylindrical corpus open on top and at the bottom, natural coloured, apart from a headband that joins the two heads, slightly dam., minor missing parts (ears), fissures;
reminding of the Fang mask type “ngontang”, which literally means “face of a young white girl”. The name refers to a visitor from the afterlife, where the spirits are white, rather than literal interpretation of “white” as European.

The object Two-faced helmet mask with the object ID 3039696 was last part of the auction 81st Tribal Art Auction at October 31, 2015 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 411.

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