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Fang or Aduma Mask, Gabon
- Culture
- Fang
- Origin
- Gabon
- Period
- 20th century
- Object
- Mask
- Materials
- Wood, Kaolin
- Dimensions
- 34 × 20 cm
- Catalogue
- TRB-039
A mask attributed to the Fang or Aduma, with simplified facial features enclosed by a sawtooth border. The protruding mouth shows two rows of square teeth, the small half-closed eyes sit beneath arched brows, and the nose is narrow, straight and prominent. A narrow, snake-like relief element forms a moustache or facial ornament. Pale brown wood with kaolin.
Provenance
Estate of Thomas McNemar (1931-2020), who lived and collected throughout Central and West Africa in the 1960s and 1970s and established galleries of African art in New York and San Francisco.Acquired
Hilliard & Co. · 2021
