Mali, Bamana, Komo helmet mask, warekun, wooden mask with broad open protruding crocodile style mouth with two pair of large fangs, small ears and a pair of attached antelope horns. Surmounted by a large and a smaller cylinder filled with cloth and wrought iron. The larger one is possibly used as a sacrificial container. The patina of the mask is composed of layers of offerings. Masks of the Komo association are seen as one of the most powerful objects in the Bamana culture and are danced with in enormous masquerade costumes covered in feathers of vultures. See Colleyn 'Bamana the art of existence in Mali' pag. 176. Provenance collection Rene Rasmussen, Paris, Bodes en Bode, The Hague and private collection Amsterdam. Drouot, 28 feb. 2001, ex lot 54 and Yale Archive nr. 0015100. [1] L. 70 cm.
Mali, Bamana, Komo helmet mask, warekun, wooden mask with broad open protruding crocodile style mouth with two pair of large fangs, small ears and a pair of attached antelope horns. Surmounted by a large and a smaller cylinder filled with cloth and wrought iron. The larger one is possibly used as a sacrificial container. The patina of the mask is composed of layers of offerings. Masks of the Komo association are seen as one of the most powerful objects in the Bamana culture and are danced with in enormous masquerade costumes covered in feathers of vultures. See Colleyn 'Bamana the art of existence in Mali' pag. 176. Provenance collection Rene Rasmussen, Paris, Bodes en Bode, The Hague and private collection Amsterdam. Drouot, 28 feb. 2001, ex lot 54 and Yale Archive nr. 0015100. [1] L. 70 cm.
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