Perrois

List perrois

• Mask - Wood - Punu - Africa

  

  Punu mask hand-carved on wood, decorated with vegetable pigmentsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe “ngontang” dance society used white masks with a rounded forehead and with the arches of the eyebrows drawing a heart-shaped faceproper packaging to avoid any damages during the transportwithout having a particular sacred meaning, this type of mask probably danced only during male initiationsthe mask was sometimes a helmet with four facesthe “ngontang” society takes its name from “nlo - ngon - ntàn”, which means “head of a white girl” or “dead young woman” (perrois, , page 149)masks are reminiscent of deceased people and have two purposes: keeping the evil and destructive forces away from the village, and making all that is negative ineffectiveour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease look carefully at the pictures, that are an integral part of the description and show the condition of the itemsize: 33 x 21 x 15 cmaccurate and trackable shippingare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiface mask of the “ngontang” - fang society: gabon/cameroon/equatorial guinea

  44 €

• Reliquary (1) - Wood - Gabon

  

  Specialists such as alain and françoise chaffin, ingeborg bolz, louis perrois and gérard delorme wanted to highlight stylistic groups among these kota subgroupsplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethere seems to be 5 groups: the mahongwe style, the shamaye style, the southern kota style (obamba, ndumu, wumbu), the ndassa style and the sangu stylecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablea beautiful piece, please do take the time to contemplate it and do not miss itit used to be meant to adorn a tomb - - booué region, ogooué-ivindo province - gabonthe back is uniform with visible wear marksour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethis kota from gabon is made of wood and metala tall guardian figure from the classic mbulu ngulu reliquary, stylized diamond-shaped base, topped by a ‘concave/convex’ face, plated with copper and brass leaves, the eyes are drawn by round platesare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiif kota reliquary figurines present many characteristics in common (a stylised face with copper plating, a diamond-shaped handle); they however have very different morphologies

  85 €

Related searches perrois