Description
Dan Poro mask, Ivory Coast Wood with black patina H. 28 cm Dan Poro mask, Ivory Coast H. 11 in Provenance: - Collected in the field by George W. Harley in Ganta, Liberia before - Peaboly Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Inventory number: 40-34-50/4591, 1940 - 1951 - Denver Art Museum, Denver Colorado. Inventory number: 1951. 438, 1951 - 2003 - Merton Simpson Collection - Private Collection This very ancient Dan mask shows a very clever architectural complexity in the arrangement of the different volumes of its anthropo-zoomorphic face. Its thick and deep patina testifies to its great antiquity. In a 1947 work by the Peabody Museum, Tribes of the Liberian Hinterland, a related mask, but with less marked plans, is described as a judge mask, responsible for settling conflicts (the dog - a forager for the Poro).
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Dan Poro mask, Ivory Coast Wood with black patina H. 28 cm Dan Poro mask, Ivory Coast H. 11 in Provenance: - Collected in the field by George W. Harley in Ganta, Liberia before - Peaboly Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Harvard University Inventory number: 40-34-50/4591, 1940 - 1951 - Denver Art Museum, Denver Colorado. Inventory number: 1951. 438, 1951 - 2003 - Merton Simpson Collection - Private Collection This very ancient Dan mask shows a very clever architectural complexity in the arrangement of the different volumes of its anthropo-zoomorphic face. Its thick and deep patina testifies to its great antiquity. In a 1947 work by the Peabody Museum, Tribes of the Liberian Hinterland, a related mask, but with less marked plans, is described as a judge mask, responsible for settling conflicts (the dog - a forager for the Poro).
