DOGON AWA MASK FRAGMENT

Ca. 19th - 20th century AD > A Dogon mask fragment with rectangular eye openings and a projecting lower face, the upper section retaining part of an elongated crest. Dogon masks are associated with the Awa association and with ceremonies that honour the dead and re-establish relations between the living and the ancestral world. > > Size: 450mm x 220mm; Weight: 2.87k with standg > Provenance: Private Collection of American Gentleman in London, since 1970s. > >

Estimate:£150

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