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LOT 2362

African Wooden Ceremonial Face Mask

CHOKWE TRIBE, 20TH CENTURY A.D.

11 1/4 in. (525 grams, 28.5 cm).

Carved and decorated with lengths of fiber representing hair, small nose, carved teeth and scarification marks. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From Western Ivory Coast and into Liberia, West Africa.
From the private collection of the late Brian Morley; acquired in the 1950s.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.

CONDITION

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LOT 2362

African Wooden Ceremonial Face Mask

Sold for (Inc. bp): £52

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