Lot 265 Dα

Several metal pins and holes remain on the face of the mask which attest to its once having been covered with brass panels. Such rare and early brass-covered masks were known to have occured amongst the Minianka and Dyula people of nothern Ivory Coast. For a similar mask in the collection of Brian and Diane Leyden, see Gagliardi, S.E., "Senufo Unbound : Dynamics of Art and Identity in West Africa", Cleveland, 2015, p.149, fig.100. For a mask with the same rare form of crest see Hahner-Herzog, I., "African Masks from the Barbier-Mueller Collection Geneva", Munich, 1998, p.246, fig.43.