A Bassa mask

A Bassa mask

Liberia

with a medial ridge to the forehead running into the flattened nose, open eyes and with a protruding open mouth, previously with inset teeth, with an inserted screw to the top of the head,

21.6cm high, on a stand.

Provenance

Field collected in Liberia by Heyden and Odette Walling (1916 - 1981 and 1921 - 2010) 1952 - 1954.

Bonhams, New York, African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art, 9 November 2011, lot 287.

Fernandez Leventhal Gallery, New York, USA.

Howard Nowes, New York, USA.

Private Collection, UK.

Published

African Heritage Documentation and Research Centre, ao-0176833-001.