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THBFierce 20th C. West African Wood Mask Bush Spirit
Lot 90a
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Artemis Fine Arts
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Bidsquare : American Frontier | Ethnographic | Tribal Art
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Featuring historical examples from the American, Spanish, and Mexican frontiers, as well as Native American, Ethnographic, Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, more. All items offered for sale have been legally acquired, are legal to sell and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Fine Arts info@artemisfinearts.com
Featuring historical examples from the American, Spanish, and Mexican frontiers, as well as Native American, Ethnographic, Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, more. All items offered for sale have been legally acquired, are legal to sell and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Fine Arts info@artemisfinearts.com
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West Africa, Ivory Coast or Liberia, Ngere, Krahn, or We peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. A powerful hand-carved wooden mask with a large thick-lipped mouth bearing six metal tab-shaped teeth, two circular projecting yet recessed cheeks flanking a wide nose incised with rounded nostrils, and two heavy lidded protruding squinted eyes. Topped with a rounded headdress with two spikes and an additional two spikes (or possibly ears) on both sides of the face, the intriguing mask is adorned in vibrant pigments of red, white, green, and yellow. This eccentric anthropomorphic visage is intended to represent a bush spirit, of which the Wee of Ivory Coast believe comprise all objects of the world. This mask could have been used for rituals, entertainment, focal points in moral stories, or within sociopolitical contexts. A rare and fun example from the western Africa! Size: 6.5" L x 6" W (16.5 cm x 15.2 cm); 16.75" H (42.5 cm) on included custom stand.
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex Jo De Buck collection, Brussels, Belgium
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#159312Small repair to area between eyes. Abrasions and holes to face and peripheries with fading to pigment and light encrustations, otherwise intact and very good. Nice earthen deposits and remains of pigment throughout.Condition
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