Janus-headed heddle pulley · Côte d'Ivoire, Baoulé · ID: 3052361
Prix d'appel
200 €
Prix d'Estimation
400 €
Provenance
Anton Eckert, Munich, Germany (1970)Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, Germany, 5 July 2008, lot 109
Helmuth Brust, Munich, Germany
Description
wood, pigments, carved with horned masks of different type, one of them presumably representing “bo nun amuin”, the “god of the forest”, the other one more reminding of the “kple-kple” mask type around the buffalo god “goli”, acrylic base
Littérature comparée
Vogel, Susan Mullin, Baule - African Art - Western Eyes, New York 1997, p. 128
Publications
AHDRC: 0070671