Lot: 247

82nd Tribal Art Auction

Anthropomorphic face mask

Mozambique, Makua

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Henning Schmejkal, Holle, Germany (1994)
Hans Dietrich Rielau, Hösbach, Germany
H: 7.5 inch This object is not available anymore.

wood, brown patina, painted in red and turquoise, strip of fur forming a moustache, with especially prominent modelled nose and open mouth with large gaps between teeth, pierced eyes arranged close together, forehead zone studded with tiny wooden plugs (broken out mostly), slightly dam. (nose tip, lower lip)


Rielau, Hans Dietrich, Afrikanische Miniaturen, Norderstedt 2011, p. 7