Zoomorphic mask "zamble" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Guro · ID: 3043515

Description

wood, polychrome paint, rep. (breakage back), missing part, paint rubbed off in parts.
“Zamble” represents a bushbuck, along with “zauli” and “gu” it belongs to the group of the so-called “yu-masks”. “Zamble” should ward off sorcerers and in cases of conflict he acts as mediator.

The object Zoomorphic mask “zamble” with the object ID 3043515 was last part of the auction 88th Tribal Art Auction at March 10, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 210 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,600.

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Comparing literature

Fischer, Eberhard, Guro, Masks, Munich, Berlin, London, New York 2008, p. 168

Publications

AHDRC: 150434