dance mask - Ndaaka - DR Congo (No reserve price)

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Dansmasker of the Ndaaka from DR Congo, a wooden mask with dimensions 30 × 28 × 8 cm, weight 150 g, provenance Privécollectie, in good condition, not sold with a stand, comes with a certificate of origin.

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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 northeast of the DR Congo, in Ituri Province. Good condition. Materials: wood, pigments, raffia. Will be shipped safely and insured. Pickup can be arranged by appointment. With certificate of origin.

Belgian private collection of
Maurice C. P. Verstuyf (born in Etterbeek, 1949) graduated in the Plastic Arts department of graphics at the Higher Saint Luke Institute in Schaerbeek (Brussels) in 1971.
Maurice C. P. Verstuyf aka 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 sculptures (no weapons) mainly from the Congo (DR Congo) and also from Gabon, Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, 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 northeast of the DR Congo, in Ituri Province. Good condition. Materials: wood, pigments, raffia. Will be shipped safely and insured. Pickup can be arranged by appointment. With certificate of origin.

Belgian private collection of
Maurice C. P. Verstuyf (born in Etterbeek, 1949) graduated in the Plastic Arts department of graphics at the Higher Saint Luke Institute in Schaerbeek (Brussels) in 1971.
Maurice C. P. Verstuyf aka 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 sculptures (no weapons) mainly from the Congo (DR Congo) and also from Gabon, Angola, Côte d'Ivoire, 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
28 cm
Depth
8 cm
Weight
150 g
Provenance
Private collection
Sold by
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Objects sold
100%
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