Masque "geh naw" · Libéria, Bassa · ID: 3043026
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Provenance
Ralf Lüders, Stuttgart, GermanyKetterer, Munich, 12 December 1987, lot 59
Description
wood, brown patina, kaolin, concave vaulted facial plane with pointed chin, protruding mouth with separately carved teeth, elaborate coiffure in several lobes, metal earrings, rep. (metal clamp at the back), missing parts through insetc caused damage, cracks
Publications
Dorsinville R., Meneghini M., The Bassa Mask a stranger in the house, in: Ethnologische Zeitschrift Zürich, 1, Bern, 1973, p. 38, ill. 33AHDRC: 0129623