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Description : [ African Art ] Splendid mask heaume, Mambila, Nig?a Does Creus?' a massive form anthropomorphe, broad the m?oire sup?eure have a s?e of nineteen teeth, the split gigantic eyes and enfonc?dans two broad cavit?sous Cr? rounded surplomb?' a hairstyle simply constitu?d' Cr? m?ane, animal ears couch? towards the arri?, signs of large anciennet?vec of the zones of black and red pigmentation Source: Ulrich von Scroeder, Zurich L?old H?iger, Lucernes, acquired in 1981 Cf. Newton D., The Nelson A.Rockfeller Collection: Masterpieces of Primitive Art, New York, 1978 for a large mask heaume of similar zoomorphic form. Mambila live in the north of the province of Sardauna to Nig?a on a plate. They manufacture statues of anc?es, objects of protection, masks and instruments. The masks can?e seen only by the men: the suah bvur is port?ur the top of T? with suah DUA and the men carry a fibre costume then. These masks zoomorphic are sculpt?en form various animals the such corbels, the animals sacr?ou. taboo., the owls, the indicator boards of dead.?. and the dogs, all paramount for hunting. Do the masks such as this one attest ann? of use. When they are not useful, the masks are carefully conserv??' int?or of the huts by the head of family out of the sight of the women See also Hahner-Herzog, Kecskesi and Vadja (1998: figure 61) for a similar mask heaume Mambila of the collection Barber-Mueller, having belonged before to the collections of Andr?atton and Arman. As for this example, this mask has atypical almond eyes, in opposition to eyes of cylindrical form. Moreover, these masks have the m? rear? projecting as eyebrows and a hairstyle out of Cr?, work caract?stic of the r?on Cross-country race To rivet it or Grasslands. E25,000-35, 000 EUR
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