Description: Very similar work to their neighbors, the Baule, this mask shows excellent skill in its fashioning. Members of the tall crest (hair? horns? tusks? wooden feathers?) are impossibly thin but wholly intact. The very elaborate coiffure visually anchors these. The face is framed by chip carving. Kaolin around its crescent squinting eyes and pouting mouth seem to highlight its expression of stubbornness. Six small grids of scarification dot the forehead and cheeks and a tidy goatee below the chin completes this wonderful artifact. Incredibly, this mask retains its original bite stick! (Last two pictures). It is about 17" tall. The quite splotchy patina on its crest looks to have been acquired naturally and not intentionally; perhaps it is just remnant kaolin since it is found only on the tips of these spikes and not on the lower grooved portion. U.S. buyers please. [Boston Primitive]
Price: 225 USD
Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts
End Time: 2024-02-17T22:48:54.000Z
Shipping Cost: 20 USD
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Item Specifics
All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Provenance: Ownership History Not Available
Country/Region of Manufacture: Côte d'Ivoire
Culture: African
Handmade: Yes
