Mask "ntomo" ·  Mali, Bamana · ID: 3030637

Description

wood, brown patina, plant fibres, of typical form with seven tooth-like projections, coated with resin-like mass with inserted cowrie snails, plant fibre in some places, pierced around the rim, rep. (horn), dam., missing parts (cowrie snails), traces of abrasion, base

Littérature comparée

Bambara sculpture from the Western Sudan, New York 1960, p. 30 f.