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Documentation of Authenticity / Any Available Provenance Will Be Included With This Piece. CONDITION Wood deterioration especially right forehead area, scrapes and chips, worn areas, age cracks, overall condition fair to good. Thank you and please view my other items. BACKGROUND
The Makua are famous for their half helmet-shaped mask, which is stylistically related to the Makonde. They were probably carried at the end of long poles during initiation ceremonies. In addition to these helmet masks, they also made some clay and some wooden face masks.
Painter Fred Uhlman words - Most of the artists I admired, Picasso, Modigliani, Deraini, to mention only a few, had collected African art and had been profoundly influenced by it. Shortly afterwards I bought the Baule Fetish and the Baule bobbin which are still two of the finest pieces in my collection. It is easy to see why I bought them and why from that moment I have never stopped collecting. The head of the bobbin or heddle - pulley which is after all only a functional object for the purpose of weaving seemed to me then and today as beautiful as a Greek goddess. The fetish moved me as deeply as the bobbin by its silent tragic dignity and its air of profound meditation. GUARANTEE AUTHENTICITY AND CONDITION OF ITEMS ARE GUARANTEED TO THEIR DESCRIPTION AND PICTURES. QUESTIONS PLEASE EMAIL WITH ANY QUESTIONS, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, OR MORE DETAIL PICTURES. SHIPPING SHIPPING VIA USPS PARCEL POST OR FEDEX GROUND UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE. OTHER SHIPPING
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