Jimini, Ivory Coast: A typical and rare mask of the Jimini, with large buffalo horns.
One of the rare masks of the Jimini, a subgroup and related group of the Senufo people on the Ivory Coast. Carved in hard, brown wood and dyed black. With large, elegantly curved buffalo horns, a characteristic style feature of the Jimini (as with their heddle pulley, cat. no. 45). With ears protruding at the sides, large cross-hatched eyebrows, slit eyes, curved nose with broad nose wings, with a small, open, half-spheroidal protruding mouth and typical tribal scarification marks on the forehead, on the temples and cheeks. On both sides, beneath the ears, this typical Jimini mask wears appendages, which are strongly reminiscent of similar features of the ‘Kpelie’ or ‘Kodal’ masks of the Senufo people. A beautiful, rare piece with good, shiny usage patina on the front and especially on the reverse (on the inside). No damage. H: 39 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)
Provenance: ‘Mazarine’ Gallery, Jean Pierre Laprune, Paris; Viennese Private Collection.
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
02.11.2015 - 14:00
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EUR 1,500.-
Jimini, Ivory Coast: A typical and rare mask of the Jimini, with large buffalo horns.
One of the rare masks of the Jimini, a subgroup and related group of the Senufo people on the Ivory Coast. Carved in hard, brown wood and dyed black. With large, elegantly curved buffalo horns, a characteristic style feature of the Jimini (as with their heddle pulley, cat. no. 45). With ears protruding at the sides, large cross-hatched eyebrows, slit eyes, curved nose with broad nose wings, with a small, open, half-spheroidal protruding mouth and typical tribal scarification marks on the forehead, on the temples and cheeks. On both sides, beneath the ears, this typical Jimini mask wears appendages, which are strongly reminiscent of similar features of the ‘Kpelie’ or ‘Kodal’ masks of the Senufo people. A beautiful, rare piece with good, shiny usage patina on the front and especially on the reverse (on the inside). No damage. H: 39 cm. First half of the 20th century. (ME)
Provenance: ‘Mazarine’ Gallery, Jean Pierre Laprune, Paris; Viennese Private Collection.
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Tribal Art |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 02.11.2015 - 14:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 28.10. - 02.11.2015 |