Zoomorphic mask "sukun" ·  Mali, Bamana · ID: 3037517

Description

wood, brown patina, blackened in parts, horn-like ears, a flattened “hook nose” with beak-like appendage, rectangular openings, circular metal discs, pierced around the rim., min. dam., slight traces of abrasion;
this mask might represent a stylized horse. However, its structural components can also be interpreted as a synthesis of several animals.

Littérature comparée

Bourgeois, Arthur & Scott Rodolitz, Remnants of Ritual, New York 2003, p. 2, ill. 5