A Dan Kran mask Liberia wood with over-hanging forehead and a metal nail to the top

A Dan Kran mask

Liberia

wood with over-hanging forehead and a metal nail to the top, high rounded cheeks and conical eyes, the top lip with holes, some retaining wood pegs, the back with the remains of a cloth strap, late 19th/early 20th century,

25cm high, on a stand. (2)

Provenance

Ex Collection Paul & Maria Wyss.

Galerie Témoin, Geneva, Switzerland.

Pendarell (Pen) Kent collection.

Published

Die Kunst de Dan. Musee Rietberg, Zurich, 1976, p.112, no.82.