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Body Mask
Body Mask
Makonde Culture, Tanzania, Late 19th-Early 20th Century
carved wood 21 h × 10 w × 5 d in (53 × 25 × 13 cm)
carved wood 21 h × 10 w × 5 d in (53 × 25 × 13 cm)
estimate: $5,000–7,000
provenance: Collection of Nkurunziza Richard, Sr., the first curator of the National Museum in Kinshasha, Democratic Republic of Congo
literature: Jens Jahn, Tanzania: Meisterwerke Afrikanischer Skulptur Sanaa Za Mabingwa wa Kiafrika, Munich, 1994, ppg. 470-471 illustrate this work