Lot: 171

89th Tribal Art Auction

Mask "sigma"

Burkina Faso, Bwa/Ghana

Provenance Size Starting price / estimated price
Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden H: 18.9 inch This object is not available anymore.

wood, pigments, metal,
These masks are from Northern Ghana, but in the formal aspects of their construction they bear some important similarities to certain Gurunsi and Bwa mask styles from Burkina Faso.


Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 98
Exhibited:

Magins Hjärta, Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, Sweden, 1997