Water spirit mask · Nigeria, Ijaw, Niger Delta · ID: 3033136
sold
EUR 2,800
Provenance
Wolfgang Ketterer Munich, 8 November 1980, lot 80Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, Munich, Germany
Harald & Ursula Suhr, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada / Germany (1981)
Size
H: 99 cm
H: 39.0 inch
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
Comparing literature
Anderson, Martha G., Ways of the Rivers, Los Angeles 2002, p. 148 f.
Publications
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst, München 1975, p. 150, fig. 207; Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, African Art in Private German Collections, München 1973, ill. 314Exhibition
Kempten, Germany: "Afrikanische Kunst/African Art, An Exhibition of the Stadtsparkasse", Stadtsparkasse Kempten, March 1977