Zoomorphic mask ·  Mali, Bamana · ID: 3035324

Description

wood, dyed in reddish brown, decorated with stripes, either painted indigo blue or paste with tinfoil, globular forehead with a long beak tapering to a point, carved with a huge board-shaped flattened nose, flanked by small eyes, arranged close to each other, slightly dam. (eyes), fissures, the drilled holes around the rim mostly broken and replaced by a second row, rep. (a small part reinserted on the right rim), metal socle