Portrait mask "ndoma" of the "mblo"- group
Côte d'Ivoire, Baoulé
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Provenance
Claude Michalak, Paris, FranceApollinaire Ocrisse
Taille
H: 33 cm
H: 13.0 inch
Description
wood, matt shiny blackish brown patina, decorating tags, bean-shaped eyes, various kinds of scarifications: burls in rectangular compartments, thorn-shaped and incised tattoos, massive tripartite coiffure with ornamental arranged ears, emerging from the forehead, slightly dam. (eyes), drilled holes around the rim partly broken out, abrasion of paint