Lot n° 186
Estimation :
250 - 500
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 330EUR
Mali - Lot 186
Mali
Dogon zoomorphic mask
Wood
H.35 cm - L.15 cm
(Sold without base)
Provenance (according to family oral tradition) : Acquired from Pierre Langlois, Paris.
This "hunter's mask", dannana or ibi bobongo, belongs to the most restricted group of Dogon masks: those with anthropomorphic representations. Like the seventy-eight types of mask identified by Marcel Griaule in Dogon country between 1931 and 1935 (Masques dogons, 1938) - most of them animal masks - it was created to combat the anger of the nyama of animals killed by hunters. Within his corpus, this work stands out for the monumentality and boldness of its construction.
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