Fire spitter mask "wanjugo" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Sénoufo · ID: 3039483

Description

heavy wood, matt patina, remains of polychrome paint, composed of different animals (crocodile jaw, wart hog fangs, mighty buffalo horns), crowned by a small vessel and two zoomorphic figures (hornbill, chamaeleon?), min. dam., missing parts, fine cracks, traces of abrasion

Littérature comparée

Förster, Till, Die Kunst der Senufo aus Schweizer Sammlungen, Zürich 1988, p. 57