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Description : Ivory Coast/MaliSeveral metal pins and holes remain on the face of the mask which attest to its once having been covered with brass panels. Such rare and early brass-covered masks were known to have occured amongst the Minianka and Dyula people of nothern Ivory Coast. For a similar mask in the collection of Brian and Diane Leyden, see Gagliardi, S.E., Senufo Unbound : Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa, Cleveland, 2015, p.149, fig.100. For a mask with the same rare form of crest see Hahner-Herzog, I., African Masks from the Barbier-Mueller Collection Geneva, Munich, 1998, p.246, fig.43.
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About the lot N° 265 Title : Senufo Kpelie Mask, Period : 2015 Size : 29 cm. high Notes : VAT: Margin scheme
