wood, honey brown patina, triangular facial plane with long chin, arching brows with bean-shaped narrow slit eyes below, the oval mouth with pierced corners, pointed and linear incised scarification marks, slightly dam., minor missing part at the back of the rim, metal base;
the name of the mask "young woman" refers to a mythic female person, who died young of age. The masquerade should remind of the painful loss.
H: 22 cm, H: 8,7 inch
Provenance:
Mon Steyaert, Brussels, Belgium
Vera und Wolfgang Nerlich, Munich, Germany
Lit.: Hahner-Herzog, Iris, Das Zweite Gesicht, Genf, München, New York 1997, ill. 86
Continent: Africa

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