Mask with horns "kpan pre" · Côte d'Ivoire, Baoulé · ID: 3032343
Hubert Caspers, Hamburg, Germany
Description
wood, dyed in red (therefore male type), black and white pigment, flat oval face with elongated nose bridge, carved and painted scarification marks, frameded by an abundant grass fibre cuff, crossbar backside for fixing the mask with the teeth, slightly dam., traces of insect caused damage, abrasion;
belonging to the family of the “kple-kple” masks which performed to honour the buffalo god “goli”. The “goli”-rite originally derives from the Wan, a small Mande group in the northwestern Baule area. In the Baule version of the Goli dance four pairs of masks appear two by two in a fixed order: first a pair of disc-faced masks (usually called “kple kple”), next a pair of animal helmet masks “goli glen”, third a pair of horned face masks “kpan pre”, and finally two human-faced masks with crested hairdos “kpan”. Within each pair, the masks and costumes are nearly identical, but the masks of the “kple kple” and “kpan pre” pairs are distinguished by color: the male mask is painted red, the female black.
L’objet Mask with horns “kpan pre” avec l’ID d’objet 3032343 a fait partie de la vente aux enchères 68th tribal art auction dans 3 mars 2012. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 319 a atteint un prix de vente de 2 600 € pour un prix d’adjudication de 2 400 €.
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Littérature comparée
Vogel, Susan Mullin, Baule - African Art - Western Eyes, New York 1997, p. 171 f.