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Humanoid mask featuring a large animal mouth with shiny patina. Ivory Coast. Height: 50 cm

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Humanoid mask featuring a large animal mouth with shiny patina. Ivory Coast. Height: 50 cm

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Etagère en bois exotique , sculptures et bas relief de scènes animalières. Travail indochinois début XX° 177 x 87 x 45 cm.

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Important double-crested mask, carved with a cubist face, the mouth open in a diamond shape over angular lips, concentric eyes giving it intense expressiveness and the nose forming a large arched blade in relief. It is adorned with numerous engraved geometric symbols. Wood, natural pigments, old brown patina and internal wear marks. Winiama, western Burkina Faso. Dimensions with base : 92 cm Dimensions without base : 63 cm Bibliography: Land of The Flying Masks, The Thomas G. B. Wheelock Collection, Prestel Editions, page 400, Fig. 90, for a very similar mask.

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