A Kono Big Mask, Mali,
Wood, 120 x 25 x 22 cm. A large and complete Kono ritual mask with charge.
Published in:
1910 ‘L’âme d’un peuple africain: Les Bambara. LEUR vie psychique, éthique, sociale, religieuse.
“Our great ‘boli’ fetishes receive special homages, tributes and great blood-lettings, for at every moment
one has recourse to the intervention...
The three principal sacrifices offered for reasons... the first is made in order to obtain favour, to attract the good graces of the fetish, the second to save one’s life, to extract oneself from a decreed death, and the third is offered to appease a fetish to whom one attributes the death of a loved one, to ask that the family survivors be spared. At the end of each important sacrifice all the pieces that make up the fetish are cleaned in the surplus blood gathered into earthen containers called ‘da’, and it isn’t until this operation has been accomplished in the most profound silence, that they are put back into their goatskins. (pp.152–153).
Provenance:
Collection Guldemont, Liege.
Cf. A similar mask is photographed in situ in 1910 by Jos Henry,
Specialist: Joris Visser
Joris Visser
+32-2-514 00 34
Joris.Visser@dorotheum.com
04.12.2018 - 14:00
- Estimate:
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EUR 20,000.- to EUR 30,000.-
A Kono Big Mask, Mali,
Wood, 120 x 25 x 22 cm. A large and complete Kono ritual mask with charge.
Published in:
1910 ‘L’âme d’un peuple africain: Les Bambara. LEUR vie psychique, éthique, sociale, religieuse.
“Our great ‘boli’ fetishes receive special homages, tributes and great blood-lettings, for at every moment
one has recourse to the intervention...
The three principal sacrifices offered for reasons... the first is made in order to obtain favour, to attract the good graces of the fetish, the second to save one’s life, to extract oneself from a decreed death, and the third is offered to appease a fetish to whom one attributes the death of a loved one, to ask that the family survivors be spared. At the end of each important sacrifice all the pieces that make up the fetish are cleaned in the surplus blood gathered into earthen containers called ‘da’, and it isn’t until this operation has been accomplished in the most profound silence, that they are put back into their goatskins. (pp.152–153).
Provenance:
Collection Guldemont, Liege.
Cf. A similar mask is photographed in situ in 1910 by Jos Henry,
Specialist: Joris Visser
Joris Visser
+32-2-514 00 34
Joris.Visser@dorotheum.com
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| Auction: | Tribal Art |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 04.12.2018 - 14:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 01.12. - 04.12.2018 |