A FINE CHOKWE MASK, pwo,the oval face with slit oval eyes beneath arched brows, slender nose and open mouth with carved teeth, the forehead with engraved star, chingelyengelye, double slash beneath eyes and chin, diagonals and curves on cheeks, pierced ears with metal earring to left ear, coiffure above the forehead carved as six notched panels with grooves between, retaining elaborate plaited fibre coiffure with layered tresses behind, woven net neck, reddish patina,Cucumbi region, Shamukamba chiefdom, Angola, 19th century

细节

A FINE CHOKWE MASK, pwo,the oval face with slit oval eyes beneath arched brows, slender nose and open mouth with carved teeth, the forehead with engraved star, chingelyengelye, double slash beneath eyes and chin, diagonals and curves on cheeks, pierced ears with metal earring to left ear, coiffure above the forehead carved as six notched panels with grooves between, retaining elaborate plaited fibre coiffure with layered tresses behind, woven net neck, reddish patina,Cucumbi region, Shamukamba chiefdom, Angola, 19th century
27cm. high

出版

Berjonneau and Sonnery, 1987, p.185, Pl.154
Kerchache, Paudrat and Stéphan, 1988, p.463, fig.783

拍品专文

Pwo is the beautiful girl character in the makishi plays of the Chokwe peoples. Bastin (1982, p.102, figs. 42/43) illustrates two masks with almost identical features and coiffures, which are certainly from the same workshop and probably from the same hand, collected by Senhor Cruz in the Capacumuna and Sachicungo chiefdoms, Xassenge region, in the Museu de Etnologia, Lisbon