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• Mask - Wood - Punu - Africa

  

  Proper packaging to avoid any damages during the transportare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe “ngontang” society takes its name from “nlo - ngon - ntàn”, which means “head of a white girl” or “dead young woman” (perrois, , page 149)catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableface mask of the “ngontang” - fang society: gabon/cameroon/equatorial guineathe “ngontang” dance society used white masks with a rounded forehead and with the arches of the eyebrows drawing a heart-shaped facethe mask was sometimes a helmet with four faceswithout having a particular sacred meaning, this type of mask probably danced only during male initiationsmasks 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 ineffectiveplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitesize: 33 x 21 x 15 cmaccurate and trackable shippingplease look carefully at the pictures, that are an integral part of the description and show the condition of the itempunu mask hand-carved on wood, decorated with vegetable pigmentsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store

  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 subgroupsare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithis kota from gabon is made of wood and metalcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethe back is uniform with visible wear marksplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteit used to be meant to adorn a tomb - - booué region, ogooué-ivindo province - gabonthere seems to be 5 groups: the mahongwe style, the shamaye style, the southern kota style (obamba, ndumu, wumbu), the ndassa style and the sangu stylea 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 platesa beautiful piece, please do take the time to contemplate it and do not miss itif kota reliquary figurines present many characteristics in common (a stylised face with copper plating, a diamond-shaped handle); they however have very different morphologiesour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store

  85 €

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