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Mwai Mask, a superb mask of wood covered with a coating of…
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Mwai Mask, a superb mask of wood covered with a coating of claystone inlaid with nassa cowry shells. Red white and black pigments accentuate board open face and eyes inset with conus shell. A strong nose line with flared nostrils are extended prestigious boar tusks. Multi colored vegetable fibres frame the jaw line. Upper lip extends towards chin which terminates with finely carved head and contorted ancestral figure. Provenance: Christensen Fund Collection, as dispersed by Sotheby's 1996. Height 97 cm Width 37 cm.
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Tribal: African