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• Mask - Wood - Punu - Africa

  

  Size: 33 x 21 x 15 cmour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeface mask of the “ngontang” - fang society: gabon/cameroon/equatorial guineathe mask was sometimes a helmet with four facesplease look carefully at the pictures, that are an integral part of the description and show the condition of the itemthe “ngontang” dance society used white masks with a rounded forehead and with the arches of the eyebrows drawing a heart-shaped facemasks 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 websitethe “ngontang” society takes its name from “nlo - ngon - ntàn”, which means “head of a white girl” or “dead young woman” (perrois, , page 149)proper packaging to avoid any damages during the transportaccurate and trackable shippingare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablepunu mask hand-carved on wood, decorated with vegetable pigmentswithout 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 subgroupsthe 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 styleour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeif kota reliquary figurines present many characteristics in common (a stylised face with copper plating, a diamond-shaped handle); they however have very different morphologiesa 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 itplease 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 - gabonare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikicatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablethis kota from gabon is made of wood and metal

  85 €

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