A Gurunsi- Nunuma helmet mask, Burkina Faso, Boromou region, village Tchériba, in shape of a Guinea Fowl; white and blackened pigments, attachment-holes at the rim. This type of an animal mask ist rare in the sculpral work of the Nunuma and Winiama Lit.: Christopher D. Roy/Thomas G.B. Wheelock: Land of the Flying Masks. Art and Culture in Burkina Faso. The Thomas G. B. Wheelock Collection, Prestel 2007, p. 397 600 - 700,- Height: 53 cm |
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