Mask " kanaga" - Mali, Dogon
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Description
light wood, remains of black and white pigment, plant fibre, superstructure in form of a double cross, rep. (breakage left cross-bar), missing part (backside on the left), cracks, traces of abrasion;
presumably representing the bird "kommolo tebu" with spread wings and black and white plumage, when after its shooting the hunter carved the first "kanaga".
H: 106 cm, H: 41,7 inch
Provenance:
Toni Dähler, Basel, Switzerland
Walter Glaser, Basel, Switzerland
Lit.: Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Die Kunst der Dogon, Zürich 1995, p. 124
Continent: Africa
presumably representing the bird "kommolo tebu" with spread wings and black and white plumage, when after its shooting the hunter carved the first "kanaga".
H: 106 cm, H: 41,7 inch
Provenance:
Toni Dähler, Basel, Switzerland
Walter Glaser, Basel, Switzerland
Lit.: Homberger, Lorenz (Hg.), Die Kunst der Dogon, Zürich 1995, p. 124
Continent: Africa
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Mask " kanaga" - Mali, Dogon
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