Lot 901

SENUFO CARVED WOOD AND COPPER MOUNTED CEREMONIAL MASK

Auction: 25 June 2014 at 12:00 BST
£2,500
Description
typically modelled with a tapered face and extending coiffure, with shaped features and projections, raised on a metal stand
Dimensions
29cm long (excluding stand)
Footnote
Provenance:
The Todd Gordon Collection of African Art
This piece was created for a Do or Kpelie Men's Secret Society Performance; Senufo, Ivory Coast. Ex. collection of Leod Von Bussel, Netherlands.
Purchased Gallery DeRoche, San Francisco (8 June 1988)
