Description : African Art Baule Mask from West Africa. Flat disk-shaped face with protruding eyes, incised openings, rectangular mouth, and curving horns and ears. Mask is carved wood with red, black, and white tone oil painted details. Mask measures approx 16.5 inches in length by 9.5 inches in width by 4.75 inches in depth. Mask has surface wear consistent with age. African Art, Tribal Art, African sculpture, ethnographic Art, African folk art, African sculpture figural, decorative art, collectible African arts, African ceremonial mask. Property of a New York Private Collection. The Baule were a tribe that originated in the present day Ivory Coast area in Africa many years ago. The Baule assimilated a number of their neighbors masquerade forms: a naturalistic face mask, a horned helmet mask, and a flat circular mask called kple kple. The last of these, a male mask of junior rank, is one of several paired works that would perform sequentially in Goli society entertainments or funerals. It impersonates an unruly nature spirit that is
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n° 450 Titre : Baule Mask Dimensions : 16.5 inches in length by 9.5 inches in width by 4.75 inches in depth Condition report : surface wear consistent with age
