Lot n° 96
                        
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                                    300 - 500
                                
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                            MASQUE BOZO, MALI - Lot 96
                        
                        MASQUE BOZO, MALI
Wood with light patina, pigments, absorbent cotton,
accidents
H. 106 cm
Large parade mask depicting an antelope head with horns surmounted by soldiers in the round, one holding a rifle and dressed in gaudy fabrics. Vivid polychromy covers the whole.
Cf. Bamana and Bozo puppetry of the Segou region youth societies, from the collection of Joan and Charles Bird, Bloomington, Indiana / Mary Jo Arnoldi fig. 10, for a related example.
                        
                        
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