Mask ·  Burkina Faso, Winiama · ID: 3038566

Description

wood, greyish brown patina, heavy encrustations, metal pins, bulging mask face with chin plug and crest, coated by a thick layer of encrusted sacrificial patina, still visible: a broad grinning mouth and geometrical patterns, plug-like projection at the back of the half figure, dam., surface structure strongly marked by insect caused damage and weathering, missing parts, cracks, rep. (the half figures right arm), base

Littérature comparée

Förster, Till, Skulptur in Westafrika, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, p. 69, ill. 2-28

Exposition

Afrika speaks, Las Vegas Art Museum, 1998