A Yaure mask of hollowed form, a pointed beak-like mouth beneath an elongated nose with broard nostrils ending in high arched nostrils, the eyes in shape of offeelbeans, oirced through, a fine, ornamental elaborated coiffure, framed by tapering, pointed ears, surmounted by kalao-bird with large, curved beak spreading out it´s wings, decorated with accurately carved geometric patterns, beneath a carved zig-zag barb a rim with attachment-holes; honey coloured natural-brownish patina with an extremly smooth surface, thin-walled, signs of ritual use.

Boyer, Alain-Michel, Patrick Girard, Marceau Rivière, Art Premiers de Cote d´Ívoire, Sepia, 1997; 83, 84.

800 - 1.000,- Euro

Height: 49 cm
Weight: 1,1 kg