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Lot: 39

Mask 'pania ngombe', face of bull with large ears and elliptic eyes. Scarification marks on the cheeks. Mouth with teeth. Face is powdered ocher-colored, black and white decorations.
The mask is treated like a human face with the top of the head decorated with white triangles on a black surface.
Edge of mask is perforated with many holes, close to one another, thick beard made of rafia.
Wood, rafia.
Provenance: Kegel und Konietzko, Hamburg 1969.
Old inventory number from Kegel und Konietzko

Some holes on the top of the mask's edge are broken, tip of the right ear is broken.

>> Literature

Hammer Price: 1,100 €

115B -
03. June 2014 at

Literature:

Supporting literature: Joseph Cornet, A Survey in Zairian Art - The Bronson Collection, Raleigh 1978, p. 140, pl. 75.

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