Nwantantay Mask
Bwa · Burkina Faso
Reference: MFG-82
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- Height
- 199 cm
- Material
- Wood and pigments.
Large plated mask topped by a stylized bird placed face down. The body of the mask is decorated with five square spaces. The two ends draw…
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Full original description
Large plated mask topped by a stylized bird placed face down. The body of the mask is decorated with five square spaces. The two ends draw an "X" in the center. The second picture on the top shows a half with two lines of small black triangles in whose center there is another line of red triangles and its lower half represents a crocodile. The central box presents a set of geometric lines opposed by the center. And the second quadreo of the lower part presents the same geometric line drawing changing the order of the colors on its lower part, while the upper half appears to have two bird heads opposite the back of the neck. The back is decorated with white-circle arches facing each other, leaving in the center an elongated drawing, black, with rhomboidal shapes. Red and black polychrome on white background.
Further technical information
- Width
- 24 cm
- Attributed period
- Mid-century XX or earlier.
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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Burkina Faso. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.
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