Lot: 130

79th Tribal Art Auction

Mask " kanaga"

Mali, Dogon

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
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