This is the rating and price for [ Tribal Art ] AN Important Lega Bone Mask, lukunga of slightly curved oval form, pierced ovals at the centre of the lenticular eyes showing traces of kaolin, flared nose and small pierced mouth, zigzag of a double band of dots across the forehead

Description : [ Tribal Art ] AN Important Lega Bone Mask, lukunga of slightly curved oval form, pierced ovals at the centre of the lenticular eyes showing traces of kaolin, flared nose and small pierced mouth, zigzag of a double band of dots across the forehead and cluster above the nose, shallow notches down the ridge of the nose, golden to brown patina on the front, reddish brown on the reverse, pierced each side and with short length of plaited fibre, on panel of Kuba raffia pile cloth the mask 17.5cm. high Provenance: Baron Pierre Descamps Baron Pierre Descamps was an ardent collector of African art, and probably inherited several African carvings from his father, Baron Edouard Descamps 1847-1933 international law yer, member of the Upper House of parliament, Minister for Science and Arts, Minister of State of the Congo Free State. There is a very remote possibility that the mask may have been a gift of H. Stanley of Livingstone fame, but as he is not recorded as having travelled among the Lega the possibility must remain a slender one
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