Lately , a unique sculpture arrived to our gallery.<\/p>\n
It is an extremely rare item from the Mussi-Dogon tribe bought by an American collector in 1962. It is a sculpture \/ mask (Ritual Mask) created in the early 1920s in Mali in a village near Duenza.<\/p>\n
The mask \/ statue rises to a height of six feet and is made up of a typical mask at the bottom of the statue and above it is a full-figured woman figure that includes a face, an elongated body, and two arms descending stiffly at the sides of the body.<\/p>\n
From the front of the mask are two split horns that reach the upper body of the woman\u2019s figure.<\/p>\n
It is a sculpture carved as a special separate unit without copies.<\/p>\n
The carved statue was hardened by a controlled fire and then painted in white and red stripes painted warp and weft throughout.<\/p>\n
The mask itself was designed so that it could be worn on the face during the ceremony.<\/p>\n
The sculpture \/ mask was displayed in the late 1960s at the N.C. Museum. In North Carolina and is currently on display in our gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[352],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n