kifwebe Wood, kaolin height 11 13/16in (30cm) Provenance Daniel Spoeri Collection, Switzerland Charles-Edouard Duflon, Geneva Private Collection, Switzerland Exhibited Geneva, Ethnographie à Genève , Bank Lombard Odier, 2010 Organized by Boris Wastiau, Director of the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève and the patrons of the museum, this was a special exhibition to encourage Swiss people to vote in favor of building the new museum. This mask is sculpted with well-balanced proportions in a deeply hollowed composition with predominant use of white clay and rounded form representative of female masks; the heart-shaped face with brows arching above pensive, slightly domed slit eyes; a protruding slit mouth carved on the same plane as the nose and narrow, squared chin; delicately incised overall with linear design; light brown patina with white and brown pigments.
kifwebe Wood, kaolin height 11 13/16in (30cm) Provenance Daniel Spoeri Collection, Switzerland Charles-Edouard Duflon, Geneva Private Collection, Switzerland Exhibited Geneva, Ethnographie à Genève , Bank Lombard Odier, 2010 Organized by Boris Wastiau, Director of the Musée d'ethnographie de Genève and the patrons of the museum, this was a special exhibition to encourage Swiss people to vote in favor of building the new museum. This mask is sculpted with well-balanced proportions in a deeply hollowed composition with predominant use of white clay and rounded form representative of female masks; the heart-shaped face with brows arching above pensive, slightly domed slit eyes; a protruding slit mouth carved on the same plane as the nose and narrow, squared chin; delicately incised overall with linear design; light brown patina with white and brown pigments.
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