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A KUYU HEAD
For the kebekebe masquerade
With engraved narrow eyes below grooved brows, lenticular mouth, a carved disc on the forehead flanked by keloid scarification, further keloids below the ears, the cross-hatched domed coiffure surmounted by a pangolin whose tail hangs over the nape of the neck, two bands of scorched and engraved chevrons about the neck
43cm. high
Provenance
Lorenz Eckert, Basel
Exhibited
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Musée des Beaux Arts, 1971, Afrique Noire, Sculptures des collections privée suisses, no.70
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