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LOT 2355

African Wooden Ceremonial Face Mask

SENUFO TRIBE, EARLY-MID 20TH CENTURY A.D.

14 3/8 in. (1.12 kg, 36.5 cm).

Carved with a narrow face, narrow protruding sharp nose, slit eyes with some decoration, a closed mouth with protruding lips, bead and cowrie shell decoration to one ear and a bird's neck and head sculpture to the top of the mask. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From Burkina Faso, West Africa.
From a Glasgow ethnographical collection; formed 1940s-1950s.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.

CONDITION

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LOT 2355

African Wooden Ceremonial Face Mask

Sold for (Inc. bp): £20

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