Anthropomorphic mask ·  Mali, Dogon · ID: 3034752

Description

open hollowed mouth, the teeth inset with bone splinters, eyebrows with animal hair, min. dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion, wooden socle;
depicting a person called “the hunter”. The masks are carved by the person who wears it lateron. It is completed by a plant fibre costume which covers the most part of the body.

Littérature comparée

Bilot, Alain, Masques du pays Dogon, Paris 2001, p. 101