Fang mask with base

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brand description

The African Touch is one of the most competitive suppliers in Europe in the range of styles from colonial to tribal through safari, boho, folk, Arabic, etc. They have several expert buyers who travel and personally visit, continuously, one by one, the markets and workshops of a large part of the African countries looking for select elements of art and decoration that can be integrated into contemporary European interior design.

Product description

Traditional heart-shaped mask (with the domed forehead and the mouth forming the lower contour of the mask), called Ngontang. She has a face of great beauty and contained serenity. Made with acacia wood. Its typical colours, kaolin white, black and red in the mouth, and its delicate and stylized shapes inspired Picasso and other European avant-garde artists who took them as the basis for their artistic revolution. Until the French colonial authorities forbade them, these masks had a judicial function as they were worn by criminals and those guilty of curses. The Fang ethnic group is known for the carving of masks and sculptures, it settles on the western coast of Africa, between Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon, where it comes from.
T210112261 - LENGTH 16cm / HEIGHT 50cm / WIDTH 18cm / WEIGHT 693gr
acacia wood
brown, black and white