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THBAfrican Gabon Punu Wood Carved Tribal Mask
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJan 19, 2025
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 2 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of important fine art from landscapes and etchings to old masters and portraits. We have a collection of sterling silver, African artifacts, oriental rugs, Asian antiquities, a collection from the Ex Managing Director of the NYC Waldorf Astoria, and more! Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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- Lot Description
African Gabon Punu Wood Carved Tribal Mask.
Size: 10 x 20 x 7 in.
#4697 .
The Punu or Bapunu people are a Bantu meta-ethnicity of the Central African nations of Gabon and the Republic of Congo. According to oral tradition, the Punu people originated from the ancient Jagas tribe of Kasaï and Zambezi who invaded the Kingdom of Kongo in roughly 1568. Modern ethnographic and DNA studies have discovered that the warrior group is comprised of extremely diverse origins from all over the continent, and migrated into Southern Gabon in the 18th Century. In modern times they are best known for their masks, particularly humanoid figures in either stark white face or deep black coloring with elaborate hairstyles and diamond patterns carved into the foreheads, often totalling nine to symbolize the Nine Punu Clans. Pre-colonial masks are virtually non-existent because tribal leaders order them to be destroyed rather than fall into the hands of their conquerors, but their design and meaning as symbols of good, evil, and neutral spirits has permeated throughout the region and even as far west as the Ivory Coast, influencing the mask styles of the Baule tribe. This extreme proliferation and influence is due in some part to the diaspora of the tribe, as the Punu are believed to have been the most commonly enslaved group on the Western coast of Africa, traded and sold frequently between the African kingdoms as well as with American and European buyers. Punu wood carvers are also distinct from many of the surrounding tribes in that their subjects are mostly female, reflecting an idealized view of femininity, fertility, and one of the more gender-equal and matrilineal caste systems on the continent. Although part of the larger Bantu ethnic group they have no modern country of their own, with their largest concentration making up only 12% of the population of Gabon, and this has made it more difficult to preserve their culture and influence while simultaneously contributing to their impact on most of the equatorial part of the Africa.
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10 x 20 x 7 in.
