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LOT 2387
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]
ProvenanceFrom Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa.
From a Glasgow ethnographical collection; formed 1940s-1950s.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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