Facial Dye Mask
Guro · Côte d’Ivoire
Reference: 136
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- Height
- 45 cm
- Material
- Wood and pigments.
Mask that appears at funerals and can only be seen by men. The horns indicate that it belongs to a secret society of hunters. The figure…
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Mask that appears at funerals and can only be seen by men. The horns indicate that it belongs to a secret society of hunters. The figure represented in these masks corresponds to some important event that occurred to some member of the clan. In this case it seems to evoke a hunting scene.
Further technical information
- Attributed period
- Mid-century XX.
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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Côte d’Ivoire. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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