Mask "sigma" ·  Ghana/Gurunsi, Burkina Faso · ID: 3035822

Description

wood, matt patina, polychrome paint, plant fibres, of flat form with a high towering superstructure, a stylized face indicated by painted eye pairs and a handle-shaped appendage in the middle, min. dam., cracks, traces of abrasion;
these masks are from Northern Ghana, but in the formal aspects of their construction they bear some important similarities to certain Gurunsi and Bwa mask styles from Burkina Faso.

Littérature comparée

Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 98