dance mask - Ndaaka - DR Congo (No reserve price)
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Dansmasker from the Ndaaka culture in the DR Congo, carved in wood with pigments and raffia, 30 × 30 × 10 cm, 265 g, provenance Privécollectie, in good condition, one item, no stand.
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An old dance mask in light wood with raffia from the Ndaaka tribe. An ethnic Bantu group of 58,500 people living in the northeastern part of the DR Congo, in Ituri Province. Good condition. Materials: wood, pigments, raffia. Will be shipped safely and insured. Pickup is available by appointment. With certificate of origin.
Belgian private collection of
Maurice C. P. Verstuyf (born in Etterbeek in 1949) graduated in the Department of Graphic Arts within the Plastic Arts at the Higher Saint Luke Institute in Schaerbeek (Brussels) in 1971.
Maurice C. P. Verstuyf, also known as Stef Verstuyf, was until 2014 a senior art director and creative director at several international advertising agencies and started his collection of tribal art in the early 1970s. This collection consists of masks and figures (not weapons), mainly from the Congo (DRC) and also from Gabon, Angola, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Cameroon, and Nigeria.
An old dance mask in light wood with raffia from the Ndaaka tribe. An ethnic Bantu group of 58,500 people living in the northeastern part of the DR Congo, in Ituri Province. Good condition. Materials: wood, pigments, raffia. Will be shipped safely and insured. Pickup is available by appointment. With certificate of origin.
Belgian private collection of
Maurice C. P. Verstuyf (born in Etterbeek in 1949) graduated in the Department of Graphic Arts within the Plastic Arts at the Higher Saint Luke Institute in Schaerbeek (Brussels) in 1971.
Maurice C. P. Verstuyf, also known as Stef Verstuyf, was until 2014 a senior art director and creative director at several international advertising agencies and started his collection of tribal art in the early 1970s. This collection consists of masks and figures (not weapons), mainly from the Congo (DRC) and also from Gabon, Angola, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Cameroon, and Nigeria.
Details
No. of items
1
Ethnic group/ culture
Ndaaka
Country of Origin
DR Congo
Material
Wood
Sold with stand
No
Condition
Good condition
Title of artwork
dance mask
Height
30 cm
Width
30 cm
Depth
10 cm
Weight
265 g
Provenance
Private collection
