Mask "geh naw"

Liberia, Bassa

Provenance	Size	Starting price / estimated price
Ralf Lüders, Stuttgart, Germany Ketterer, Munich, 12 December 1987, lot 59	H: 8.7 inch	This object is not available anymore.

wood, brown patina, kaolin, concave vaulted facial plane with pointed chin, protruding mouth with separately carved teeth, elaborate coiffure in several lobes, metal earrings, rep. (metal clamp at the back), missing parts through insetc caused damage, cracks

Dorsinville R. and Meneghini M., The Bassa Mask a stranger in the house, in: Ethnologische Zeitschrift Zürich, 1, Bern, 1973:38, ill. 33

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