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Mask "zauli" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Guro · ID: 3038078

Vendu 2 000 €
Provenance
Oechslin, Zurich, Switzerland (acquired in Paris in the 1930’s)

Description

wood, greyish brown patina, black paint, kaolin, narrow face with delicate facial features, prominent mouth with puckered lips, eyes with lowered lids, superstructure in shape of a cock, min. dam., minor missing parts (both ears, left eye, rim backside), breakage (right leg/wing of the cock), rep. (right eyebrow), abrasion;
“zauli” is the most widespread entertainment masquerade of the Guro people, employing colorful face masks with complex top attachments. Guro historians often called “zauli” mask-beings “djela lu zauli” i. e. “zauli”, daughter of “djela”, thus implying a direct descent from “zamble” and “gu” and their daughter “djela”.The story of “zaulis” appearance involves a father who is so attached to his beautiful daughter that he takes her with him to the sacred forest. There she dies and a mask is created to commemorate her.


Littérature comparée

Fischer, Eberhard, Guro, Masks, Munich, Berlin, London, New York 2008, p. 294 & ill. 447


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