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LOT 2387

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GBP (£) 40 - 60
EUR (€) 46 - 69
USD ($) 54 - 80

Current bid: £5 (+bp*)
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(1 Bid, Reserve met)   |   Current bid: £5
AFRICAN WOODEN CEREMONIAL FACE MASK
BAULE TRIBE, EARLY-MID 20TH CENTURY A.D.
14 1/4 in. (1.63 kg, 36 cm).

A wooden tribal oval mask with wide open mouth displaying teeth, a large narrow nose, hatched crest. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
From Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa.
From a Glasgow ethnographical collection; formed 1940s-1950s.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.

CONDITION
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