Mask Hat - Dan-84cm - Côte d'Ivoire

All Dan masks are sacred. They do not represent the spirits of the bush but are these spirits. Contemporary decorative mask. Aesthetic constants: a domed forehead, a slender nose, a mouth drawn with precision. The Dan materialize the mask as a face of a woman or child, more or less idealized. This mask belongs to the Go Gé society and is worn only to announce the death of an important chief. It is large in size compared to other masks of the ethnicity, and its coiffure is the most complex and the most ornamented. It is the funerary mask par excellence: the most sacred mask of the ethnicity. cowries and rapia fabrics, ) shipped by registered mail with tracking and sold without a base.

Stima:€220

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