Carre acquires the mask in 1935 from Innocent Moris said "Father Morris" who was with Heymann and Brummer, one of the first to open a shop of primitive art in Paris in 1910.
This beautiful vest Mask presentation in 1935 at the Valentine Gallery in New York. Work
remarkable aesthetic developed dune by sculptors Yaoure Baoulé neighbors, it has an oval face surrounded in its lower part a flange notched characteristic Yaoure and terminated by a pin, a straight nose and end, a tripartite hairstyle decorated with copper and a small mouth circular whistle.
It is surmounted by a pair of antelope horns to hang on a person of remarkable delicacy of features.
It may be an ancient form of GYE scrub with a double meaning both feminine associated with the Secret Society of KNO female and male identity under which he is expected to announce villagers and the fire doncla War
Credit: Sotheby's auction catalog photos of the author
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