Dan Kran (also Dan-Wé), Ivory Coast, Liberia: A large, angular chimpanzee mask, called ‘Kagle’.
Dan Kran (also Dan-Wé), Ivory Coast, Liberia: A large, angular chimpanzee mask, called ‘Kagle’.
This mask type of the Kran (also called Wé or Ngere), a subgroup of the Dan tribes, depicts a chimpanzee (or a guenon). It is used during important dance performances in order to ‘galvanise’ the audience with wild leaps and is called ‘Kagle’ (or ‘Kaogle’). The present ‘Kagle mask’ displays all the typical features: a protruding, semicircular forehead, deep-set, triangular eyes, a wide, large nose between protruding triangular cheeks and the characteristically broad, protruding, wide open chimpanzee snout. The mask is carved in hard, brown wood and dyed black. The fastening eyelets for the mask costume along its outer edge are still for the most part rectangular (that is, the old hole type, whilst later specimens have round holes). The typical iron pin that is normally attached on the top of the head is lost.
A ‘classical’ example of this type of ‘chimpanzee mask’, with good usage patina on the outside as well as on the inside (!), and with slight, age-related damage (only minor pieces broken off).
First half of the 20th century; H: 30 cm. (ME)
Provenance: Belgian Collection.
Lit.: 'Die Kunst der Dan' by Eberhard Fischer & Hans Himmelheber, Rietberg Museum Zurich, fig. 78, 79.
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
26.05.2015 - 15:00
- Estimate:
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EUR 4,000.- to EUR 5,000.-
Dan Kran (also Dan-Wé), Ivory Coast, Liberia: A large, angular chimpanzee mask, called ‘Kagle’.
This mask type of the Kran (also called Wé or Ngere), a subgroup of the Dan tribes, depicts a chimpanzee (or a guenon). It is used during important dance performances in order to ‘galvanise’ the audience with wild leaps and is called ‘Kagle’ (or ‘Kaogle’). The present ‘Kagle mask’ displays all the typical features: a protruding, semicircular forehead, deep-set, triangular eyes, a wide, large nose between protruding triangular cheeks and the characteristically broad, protruding, wide open chimpanzee snout. The mask is carved in hard, brown wood and dyed black. The fastening eyelets for the mask costume along its outer edge are still for the most part rectangular (that is, the old hole type, whilst later specimens have round holes). The typical iron pin that is normally attached on the top of the head is lost.
A ‘classical’ example of this type of ‘chimpanzee mask’, with good usage patina on the outside as well as on the inside (!), and with slight, age-related damage (only minor pieces broken off).
First half of the 20th century; H: 30 cm. (ME)
Provenance: Belgian Collection.
Lit.: 'Die Kunst der Dan' by Eberhard Fischer & Hans Himmelheber, Rietberg Museum Zurich, fig. 78, 79.
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: | 26.05.2015 - 15:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 20.05. - 26.05.2015 |