Temne ka-Bemba Mask, Sierra Leone
Wood; raphia, brass, inventory number 1782
H. 51cm
Provenance:
James T. Hooper, London
Christie’s London, African Art from the James Hooper Collection, 14 July 1976, lot 3
Merton Simpson Gallery, New York
Allan Stone Collection, New York
Christie’s New York, Selections from the Allan Stone Collection, 12 November 2007, lot 662
Publication:
Steven Phelps, Art and Artefacts – The James Hooper Collection, Hutchinson & Co, 1976, p. 378
William Hart, Masks with Metal Strip Ornament from Sierra Leone, in African Arts, May 1987, Volume XX, Number 3, p. 71
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