Zoomorphic mask "sigma" · Burkina Faso, Gurunsi/Ghana · ID: 3040450
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Provenance
Ketterer, Munich, 17 April 1993, lot 50Size
H: 39 cm
H: 15.4 inch
Description
wood, slightly shiny patina, polychrome paint, feathers, nails, of flat board-shaped form with crowning pair of horns, superimposed antelope head, completely covered with incised geometrical patterns, rep. (crack on the backside cramped with metal sheet), slight traces of abrasion;
these masks are from Northern Ghana, but in the formal aspects of their construction they bear some important similarities to certain Gurunsi and Bwa mask styles from Burkina Faso.
Comparing literature
Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 98