Bambara Bamana comb mask, Mali Wood, cowrie... - Lot 39 - De Baecque et Associés

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Bambara Bamana comb mask, Mali Wood, cowrie... - Lot 39 - De Baecque et Associés
Bambara Bamana comb mask, Mali Wood, cowrie shells, vegetable fibers, wax H. 55 cm Provenance : Acquired from the Pierre Robin Gallery, Paris (oral information from the current owner) Developed in the Segou-Saro region along the Niger River, the Bambara produced a number of works in a recognizable style, crests or comb masks with slender aerial projections of horns, as shown by this beautiful and rare anthropo-zoomorphic comb mask from the Ntomo initiation society, which has preserved its cowrie shells all over its face. Carved in a light patina, distinguishing itself from the classical corpus, where the masks are inscribed in a dark brown wood, this mask with an elongated face, with features hidden under a layer of cowrie shells, presents five horns linked to each other by plant fibers, on which are suspended cowrie shells.
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