Dan/Guere Mask, Liberia/Ivory Coast
height 10in (25.4cm)
the forehead with remnants of a pierced nail and of extreme proportions with sunken eyes below the large forehead, the lower jaw missing; fine black encrusted patina.
Provenance:
Collected in Eastern Liberia by Hayden and Odette Walling, 1952-54
By descent to the present owner
the forehead with remnants of a pierced nail and of extreme proportions with sunken eyes below the large forehead, the lower jaw missing; fine black encrusted patina.
Provenance:
Collected in Eastern Liberia by Hayden and Odette Walling, 1952-54
By descent to the present owner
Sold for
US$ 5,000
inc. premium
Category: Ethnographic Art / African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art
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African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art
