Mask ·  Mali, Malinké · ID: 3036502

Description

wood, dark brown patina, metal sheet, pink pigment, crowned by nine vertical projecting horns and metal sheet applications, large parts of the face decorated with punched silver sheet, the area of the nose provided with resin-like mask inset with cowrie snails, framed by small ears with metal earrings, pierced around the rim, min. dam., cracks, slight traces of abrasion and corrosion, base

Littérature comparée

Museum of Primitive Art (ed.), Bambara sculpture from the Western Sudan, New York 1960, p. 60, ill. 105