Dan, Ivory Coast, Liberia: An old chimpanzee mask, called ‘Kagle’.
This expressive mask type is used with large full body costumes during important feasts of the Dan in order to challenge and ‘galvanise’ the audience with earthy jokes and jumps.
Carved into a typical form from light-coloured wood and entirely dyed black. With a broad, protruding forehead, decorated with a linear relief band, deep-set, slit eyes framed with metal (some masks also feature tubular eyes), with a straight, long nose, accentuated, rounded cheekbones and a characteristically protruding, very large and open chimpanzee mouth. A hook shaped iron nail is inserted at the top of the head.
A perfect, unusually old piece of this mask type of the Dan. With a thick, shiny and partly encrusted patina (on the top of the head). Good signs of usage also on the inside. Minor age-related damage (some pieces broken off on the back rim).
First third of the 20th century; H: c. 30 cm. (ME)
Provenance: German Private Collection.
Lit.: 'Die Kunst der Dan' by Fischer & Himmelheber, Rietberg Museum Zurich, fig. 78, 79, 80; 'Die Kunst des schwarzen Afrika' by Kerchache, Paudrat, Stephan, fig. 369.
Esperto: Prof. Erwin Melchardt
Prof. Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
26.05.2015 - 15:00
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Dan, Ivory Coast, Liberia: An old chimpanzee mask, called ‘Kagle’.
This expressive mask type is used with large full body costumes during important feasts of the Dan in order to challenge and ‘galvanise’ the audience with earthy jokes and jumps.
Carved into a typical form from light-coloured wood and entirely dyed black. With a broad, protruding forehead, decorated with a linear relief band, deep-set, slit eyes framed with metal (some masks also feature tubular eyes), with a straight, long nose, accentuated, rounded cheekbones and a characteristically protruding, very large and open chimpanzee mouth. A hook shaped iron nail is inserted at the top of the head.
A perfect, unusually old piece of this mask type of the Dan. With a thick, shiny and partly encrusted patina (on the top of the head). Good signs of usage also on the inside. Minor age-related damage (some pieces broken off on the back rim).
First third of the 20th century; H: c. 30 cm. (ME)
Provenance: German Private Collection.
Lit.: 'Die Kunst der Dan' by Fischer & Himmelheber, Rietberg Museum Zurich, fig. 78, 79, 80; 'Die Kunst des schwarzen Afrika' by Kerchache, Paudrat, Stephan, fig. 369.
Esperto: Prof. Erwin Melchardt
Prof. Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
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