A Guerre or We metal mask, rare to find it in this medium, with a wide open mouth showing thin teeth, arched nose two rounded eyes punctures with tiny holes around, the forehead is coming outwards and is decorated with many organic items or animal main, cowrie shells, rope, string, animal fur, and a bell, around the face are punctured holes whre a costume could be attached.

Marius de Zayas, African Negro Sculpture, New York, 1918, n.p., unnumbered plate
André Portier and François Poncetton, Les art sauvages. Afrique, Paris, 1927 (and reprinted in 1956), pl. XXXVII, cat. no. 62
William Fagg, The Epstein Collection of Tribal and Exotic Sculpture, London, 1960, n.p., cat. no. 131 (listed)
Ezio Bassani and Malcolm D. McLeod, Jacob Epstein, Collector, Milan, 1989, p. 18, fig. 15, and p. 85, cat. no. 42

sold

Height: 26 cm
Weight: 1,33 kg ; 2,33 kg incl. stand