Masque de chant féminin "nineagla" · Côte d'Ivoire, Wè - Wobé · ID: 3048741
Vendu
1 800 €
Provenance
Toni Dähler, Basel, SwitzerlandH.K. Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland (Helene Knill and Hans Koller)
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 11 September 2004, Lot 923
Werner Zintl, Worms, Germany
Description
wood, kaolin, pigments, plant fibre, fabric, human hair, metal, cartridge cases,
Singer masks belong to the category of entertainment masks. They depict beautiful young girls (= “nineagla”), but are worn by boys and young men.
Himmelheber reports that “sometimes quite young boys go through the village with such a mask and only one companion and show their singing art here and there without any special effort”.
Littérature comparée
Lorenz Homberger (Hrsg.), Masken der Wè und Dan, Elfenbeinküste, Zürich 1997, p. 25, ill. 13