Descubra la tasación y los precios de esta y más obras de arte africano en Africartmarket. Lot 6 Dan Tribe Wood \\'Passport\\' Masks

Descripción : Collection of 6 African Art carved wooden miniature ‘Passport’ masks from the Dan Peoples of Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia. Largest mask measures approx 7 inches in height by 3.5 inches in width by 1.75 inches in depth. Masks have surface wear consistent with age. African Art, Tribal Art, African sculpture, ethnographic Art, African folk art, African sculpture figural, decorative art, collectible African arts, African masks. Property of a New York Private Collection. ‘Miniature masks bear many names: the most common is ma go (small head). Anyone who has a spiritual connection with a mask, or whose family owns an important mask, is entitled to commission a miniature. Rubbed with oil and food, they are wrapped up and kept on the owner’s body or among his possessions and function as portable and personal forms that share the power and protective force of the full-sized mask. When a mask-owner is travelling, the miniature mask serves as an important means of identification outside his immediate community. This role that may have given it the commonly applied name of
Precio: 93.10 USD 🔓Sin tarjeta de crédito.
Estimación (baja/alta) : 100 USD-1000 USD 🔓Sin tarjeta de crédito.

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