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LOT 2391
African Wooden Ceremonial Face Mask
DAN TRIBE, EARLY-MID 20TH CENTURY A.D.
11 in. (808 grams, 28 cm).
Carved in an exaggerated face with slits in the protrusive eyes, open lips, vertical crest from nose to brow; with a rolled leather headband, decorated with cowrie shells and lengths of fibre. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia, West Africa.
From the late Brian Morley collection, 1950s.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
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