Lot: 555
77th tribal art auctionMask
Tanzania, Mwera
Provenance | Size | Starting price / estimated price |
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Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany Swiss Private Collection |
H: 11.4 inch | This object is not available anymore. |
heavy wood, brown patina, pokerwork, of oval form with simplified facial features, beard, brows and coiffure blackened, cheek and forehead scarifications, min. dam., fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion, base;
the Mwera are a small ethnical group living in the south-eastern coastal back-country of Tanzania. Their works can only hardly be differentiated from masks and figures of the neighbouring Makonde.
Krieger, Kurt, Ostafrikanische Plastik, Berlin 1990, ill. 330