Masque zoomorphe "sigma"
Burkina Faso, Gurunsi/Ghana
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Provenance
Ketterer, Munich, 17 April 1993, lot 50Taille
H: 39 cm
H: 15.4 inch
Description
wood, slightly shiny patina, polychrome paint, feathers, nails, of flat board-shaped form with crowning pair of horns, superimposed antelope head, completely covered with incised geometrical patterns, rep. (crack on the backside cramped with metal sheet), slight traces of abrasion;
these masks are from Northern Ghana, but in the formal aspects of their construction they bear some important similarities to certain Gurunsi and Bwa mask styles from Burkina Faso.