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Ceremonial bird mask

Viniama / Nunuma group in Burkina-Faso

Late 19th – early 20th century

Height: 114cm

Wood, pigments, fiber

Remarkable age and elegance for this early mask made without doubt by a great artist who really understood the purity of shapes of the head and the beak of the hornbill bird.

Provenance

Collected in the 60’s
Private collection.Paris

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