A "kolukha" mask with a rattan superstructure and polychroma - Lot 128

Lot 128
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A "kolukha" mask with a rattan superstructure and polychroma - Lot 128
A "kolukha" mask with a rattan superstructure and polychromatically enhanced fabric overhanging a polychromatic wooden face with grimacing features, the protruding mouth showing the teeth, the imposing snub nose. He wears a visored headdress above which sits a male figure in cloth, the thin wooden face and hands enhanced with polychrome. Patina of use, wear. Among the initiation masks of the mukhanda, this one, with its sexual connotation, is also the most expected. Height: 71 cm. - YAKA - DRC Exhibition "Masks between miniature and excess", Museum of the City of Montélimar, 2014
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