Null BAGA, GUINEA CONAKRY
Tonkongba dance crest mask with beautiful, clean, styl…
Description

BAGA, GUINEA CONAKRY Tonkongba dance crest mask with beautiful, clean, stylized forms of great modernism. This rare crest mask evokes projecting horns and a dolphin's tail, embodying the message from the sea, and owes its shape to this mythical animal that captured boats. The Tonkongba mask appears on important occasions and is a historian's mask, recounting village memories and traditions. This crest mask is one of the Baga people's most sacred creations. H. 57 cm ; L. 18 cm. Provenance: former collection of sculptor Berndt Helleberg (1920-2008), Sweden.

248 

BAGA, GUINEA CONAKRY Tonkongba dance crest mask with beautiful, clean, stylized forms of great modernism. This rare crest mask evokes projecting horns and a dolphin's tail, embodying the message from the sea, and owes its shape to this mythical animal that captured boats. The Tonkongba mask appears on important occasions and is a historian's mask, recounting village memories and traditions. This crest mask is one of the Baga people's most sacred creations. H. 57 cm ; L. 18 cm. Provenance: former collection of sculptor Berndt Helleberg (1920-2008), Sweden.

Auction is over for this lot. See the results