Masque en bois avec couronnement figuratif · Burkina Faso, Bwa / Gurunsi (Winiama) · ID: 3050944
Vendu
2 900 €
Provenance
French Private CollectionFranz Müller-Steinfurth, Speyer, Germany
Helmut Bruchner, Munich, Germany (2008)
Description
wood, pigments, base
A Bwa dancer with an almost identical mask is depicted on a field photo from 1983 in Roy, Art of the Upper Volta Rivers, 1987, p. 285, fig. 248. It is described as a mask of a leper.
Bwa wooden masks represent a number of characters in the myths of their families and clans. Other masks represent bush spirits that take supernatural forms (Roy, p. 269 f.).