$1,422
African Carved Wood Helmet Mask, Mende, with fat rolls at the neck, the compressed face has scarification marks and a single sight hole below the chin, the elaborate coiffure terminates in a small female head, black patina, ht. 17 in. Provenance: Collection of Charles D. Miller III, Illustrated in Sande Masks and Statues fro Liberia and Sierra Leone, Daniel Mato and Charles Miller III, pp. 52, 53.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2011-01-15