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• Mask - Wood - Punu - Africa

  

  Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablemasks 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 ineffectiveaccurate and trackable shippingthe mask was sometimes a helmet with four facesplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe “ngontang” dance society used white masks with a rounded forehead and with the arches of the eyebrows drawing a heart-shaped faceplease look carefully at the pictures, that are an integral part of the description and show the condition of the itemface mask of the “ngontang” - fang society: gabon/cameroon/equatorial guineaare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikipunu mask hand-carved on wood, decorated with vegetable pigmentsproper packaging to avoid any damages during the transportour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storesize: 33 x 21 x 15 cmthe “ngontang” society takes its name from “nlo - ngon - ntàn”, which means “head of a white girl” or “dead young woman” (perrois, , page 149)without having a particular sacred meaning, this type of mask probably danced only during male initiations

  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 subgroupscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitethe back is uniform with visible wear marksthere seems to be 5 groups: the mahongwe style, the shamaye style, the southern kota style (obamba, ndumu, wumbu), the ndassa style and the sangu styleare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikia 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 platesour 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 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 - gabonif 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 €

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