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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.
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