Lot 146
146
A RARE PENDE MASK, the triangular face with pierced crescents below the prominent eyes, the nose with pierced nostrils, lenticular mouth, two tapered vertical horns from the circular flat surface at the top of the head, the pierced border with flange and attached fibre fringe

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A RARE PENDE MASK, the triangular face with pierced crescents below the prominent eyes, the nose with pierced nostrils, lenticular mouth, two tapered vertical horns from the circular flat surface at the top of the head, the pierced border with flange and attached fibre fringe
70cm. high
Provenance
Galerie Elmar, Ghent
H.Elias, Alost
Literature
de Sousberghe, 1958,p.67
Exhibited
Antwerp, 1956, no.202
Brussels, 1958, no.23

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