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THBEarly 20th C. African Punu Painted Wood Female Mask
Lot 118a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Featuring Pre-Columbian, Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, historical examples from the Spanish, Mexican, and American frontiers, fossils, and more. All items offered for sale have been legally acquired, are legal to sell and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Central Africa, Gabon, Upper Ngoume River area, Punu peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. A hand-carved wooden mask depicting the head of a stylized female with a broad collar wrapped around her neck. The elegant countenance bears bulging ovoid eyes beneath thin eyebrows, a slender nose with flared nostrils, full lips with a delineated philtrum, tab-shaped ears, and a segmented ritual scarification mark centered on her forehead. Her centrally crested coiffure is incised with dozens of shallow striations, and a pair of lobes protrude from either side. The face is painted with yellow-brown pigment and accentuated with red and black hues; the hollow verso is unadorned. A striking example from the Punu culture. Size: 5.5" W x 10.125" H (14 cm x 25.7 cm); 13.625" H (34.6 cm) on included custom stand.
For a strikingly similar example, please see: Bacquart, Jean-Baptiste. "The Tribal Arts of Africa: Surveying Africa's Artistic Geography." Thames & Hudson, New York, 2000, p. 116, fig. 5.
Provenance: private New York, New York, USA collection; ex-private European collection
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#150314Minor nicks to collar, face, coiffure, and verso, with one stable fissure to back of coiffure, and fading to some areas of original pigmentation, otherwise intact and very good. Nice traces of original pigment as well as great patina throughout.Condition
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