Details
A GURO MASK
Ivory Coast
The face with pierced slits to the crescent eyes, rectangular keloid to each cheek, the small mouth with carved teeth, four curved projections to the top of the head, black patina with white painted embellishments, pierced about the border which retains fiber cord, old painted number in white: 8234
11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Julius Carlebach, New York, 1964

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