Sorcerer Mask
Baule · Côte d’Ivoire
Reference: MSOAL-4
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- Height
- 33 cm
- Material
- Wood and pigments.
Rare baulé sorcerer mask. It is not a mask to be covered, it is an altar mask intended for magical and divinatory rites. The head of…
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Full original description
Rare baulé sorcerer mask. It is not a mask to be covered, it is an altar mask intended for magical and divinatory rites. The head of the mask has anthropomorphic rags although they dominate the features of the MBotumbo or Mbekré. It's topped by a couple, man and woman, sitting on a stool. Both are dressed in a cloth typical of ethnicity. Because of the sad and sorry aspect they present it could be a mask intended to favor the transit to the beyond of a deceased descendant.
Heavy dense wood with dark patina, and red and yellow polychrome in the characters' clothing.
Further technical information
- Width
- 21 cm
- Attributed period
- First third of the century XX or older
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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