Lot 69
69
A YAURE MASK, of oval form with slit eyes, slender nose and small mouth, engraved zigzag bands on the coiffure, a pair of horns curved downwards from the crescent horns above, zigzag border above pieced flange, black patina

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A YAURE MASK, of oval form with slit eyes, slender nose and small mouth, engraved zigzag bands on the coiffure, a pair of horns curved downwards from the crescent horns above, zigzag border above pieced flange, black patina
39cm. high

Lot Essay

Another tu mask for the lo group with a second pair of downward-curving horns from the centre of the upright horns was in the Josef Mueller collection (now in the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva, see Barbier, 1993, Vol.II, P.109, fig. 183)

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