Mask " kanaga"
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79th Tribal Art AuctionMask " kanaga"
Mali, Dogon
Provenance | Size | Starting price / estimated price |
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Toni Dähler, Basel, Switzerland Walter Glaser, Basel, Switzerland |
H: 41.7 inch | This object is not available anymore. |
light wood, remains of black and white pigment, plant fibre, superstructure in form of a double cross, rep. (breakage left cross-bar), missing part (backside on the left), cracks, traces of abrasion;
presumably representing the bird "kommolo tebu" with spread wings and black and white plumage, when after its shooting the hunter carved the first "kanaga".
Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Die Kunst der Dogon, Zürich 1995, p. 124