Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas - 21st September 2022

Lot 211

A Salampasu mask

Estimate £300 - £400 | Hammer £500

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Description

A Salampasu mask

Democratic Republic of the Congo

with a fibre net and applied rattan spherical coiffure, the face with applied copper and with white pigment to the top of the forehead, filed teeth and ears,

13cm high.

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 29 Nov 1983, lot 357.

Romy Rey Collection, London.