Zemanek-Münster

Helmet mask of the "sande" society "ndoli jowel" ·  Sierra Leone, Mendé · ID: 3039474

Vendu 1 600 €
Provenance
Heinz Reschke, Frankfurt, Germany (Curator at the Museum of Ethnology Frankfurt am Main; he was a scholar and assistant of the famous ethnologist Leo Frobenius from 1934-1938)

Description

wood, black patina, matt and shiny, of typical cylindrical shape with compressed face and neck rolls, elaborated coiffure with crowning knob and horn emblems at the nape, slightly dam., minor missing parts, abrasion of paint, fine cracks


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