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Titel : A Temne Hammered Brass Mask
Anmerkung : Provenance:Wally and Brenda ZollmanExhibited:Museum of Anthropology, Ball State University, Indiana, 1988Governors State University, IL, 2003Krannert Art Museum, IL, 2003 Belger Art Foundation/University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO, 2004Tall Grass Art Association, IL, 2005Published:Celenko, T. African Art in Cultural Context: Selections from the Wally and Brenda Zollman Collection, Ball State University , 1988. Fig. 3Bourgeois and Rodolitz, REMNANTS OF RITUAL: SELECTIONS FROM THE GELBARD COLLECTION OF AFRICAN ART, Ethnos, New York, 2003, p.6, fig.13The Temne people of Northern Sierra Leone create masks out of hammered brass that are called “Aron Arabai”, and are considered to be the alter-ego or spiritual double of the Chief of the village that they come from. This rare mask, one of three known by the same smith or workshop, would have originally been dramatically attired in a long flowing robe of Cowrie shells sewn on red cloth, with rows of red leather amulets in bands above the face. The bright metallic surface enhanced the role of this important mask that at once was the “concept of the chief” in a dramatic and ritual context and the chief himself.Bonhams 2, Auktionator, New York, US
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Verkaufstitel : Fine African and Oceanic Art
Verkaufsdatum : 13/11/2007
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Auktionsreferenz : Live Sale
