Face mask

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Description

light brown wood, matt patina, pokerwork, crowned by a pair of horns, dam., missing parts through insect caused damage, cracks, base;
presumably a work of the carver Sikire Kambire (1896-1963) or his workshop.

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Expertise

Karl-Ferdinand Schädler, 22.4.2003, Munich, Germany

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Littérature comparée

Meyer, Piet, Kunst und Religion der Lobi, Zürich 1981, p. 127 ff. Yale Archive No. 0005565-001 (comparable object)

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