Masque zoomorphe

Burkina Faso, Winiama (Winye)

Provenance	Taille	Prix d’appel / Prix d'Estimation
Kunsthandel Jagielski, Hamburg, Germany (1961) H.G. Hannover, Germany	H: 70 cm	Cet objet n’est plus disponible.

wood, pigment residues, rest.

Masks of the Winiama mainly depict bush spirits and spiritual beings who adopted animalic forms. According to van Rijn, the present mask represents a bat.

Roy, Christopher, Art of the Upper Volta Rivers, Paris 1987, p. 204 ff.

Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Afrikanische Kunst in Deutschen Privatsammlungen, München 1973, S. 59, Fig. 65

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