Lot n° 377
Estimation :
400 - 600
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 461EUR
Dan mask - Lot 377
Dan mask
Ivory Coast, wood
H.25 cm - L.16 cm (base)
Provenance (according to family tradition): Galerie Dodier, Avranches
Among the DAN people, there are around ten different types, all serving specific functions.
They were sculpted by an artist whose vocation, legend has it, appeared to him in a dream
The mask enabled its wearer to transgress reality, to enter the other world, that of the forest and the supernatural.
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