Bundu mask 82

A Mende helmet mask with a fine quadripartite coiffure and pierced crescent eyes, with fibre and hair mounts

Provenance:
- Private collection, UK

Objects in the same workshop:
- Museum for World Cultures, Gothenburg, Sweden (Inventory nr: 2001.19.0012)
- Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali, Bergamo, Italy

Literature:
- d’Azevedo, W. L., 1973, Mask, Makers and Myth in Western Liberia, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Boone, S. A., 1986, Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art. New Haven and London: Yale University Press
- Phillips, R. B., 1995, Representing Woman: Sande Masquerades of the Mende of Sierra Leone. Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

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