Description:

West Africa, Northern Nigeria, Mama peoples, ca. early to mid-20th century CE. An interesting example of a mangam mask, hand-carved from a single piece of wood and painted with red and brown earthen pigment. The animal features a rounded head with a plateaued brow, a protruding snout with an deep incision denoting the mouth, a stocky neck that widens to form the concave verso, and a pair of projecting horns. Mangam masks typically represent the bushcow (Suncerus caffer nanus) but can also depict a waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) or a reedbuck (redunca redunca). Size: 8.6" W x 14.8" H (21.8 cm x 37.6 cm)

For a stylistically similar example of a mangam mask, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 2012.397.

Provenance: Howard Rose Gallery, New York, New York, USA; ex-Dane and Todd McDowell collection, Oklahoma, USA, inherited via family descent; ex-African Art Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA, acquired in the 1980s

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  • Condition: Losses to areas of head, horns, peripheries, and verso as shown. Fading to original pigmentation, nicks and abrasions to head, horns, and verso, with light encrustations, and extensive but inactive insect damage. Nice traces of original pigment across front.

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