Water spirit mask

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Description

wood, brown patina, remains of pigments, fez-shaped calotte, carved with a flat board-shaped element, reminding of an elephants tusk, an anthropomorphic mask face superimposed, the separate carved bow-shaped projection loosened at the base on the left, min. dam., minor missing parts, slight traces of abrasion, fissures

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Comparing literature

Anderson, Martha G., Ways of the Rivers, Los Angeles 2002, p. 148 f.

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Publications

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst, München 1975, p. 150, fig. 207; Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, African Art in Private German Collections, München 1973, ill. 314

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Exhibition

Kempten, Germany: "Afrikanische Kunst/African Art, An Exhibition of the Stadtsparkasse", Stadtsparkasse Kempten, March 1977

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