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LOT 2343
African Wooden Ceremonial Face Mask
SALAMPASU TRIBE, EARLY TO MID 20TH CENTURY A.D.
15 3/8 in. (855 grams total, 39 cm including stand).
Piriform and hollow to the reverse, with white-painted lower face, long nose, a square red-painted mouth with carved teeth; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the frontier between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola, Central Africa.
From a private London, UK, ethnographic collection.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
Footnotes
Salampasu masks were integral part of the warriors’ society whose primary task was to protect this small enclave against invasions by outside kingdoms.
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