Mask - Mali (No reserve price)

Leopard Head of Mali, Dogon
Leopard head
Animal representations in African art are famous for their symbolism and their fatal destiny. Among the extraordinary corpus of royal objects tied to the court, including heads, plaques, queen statues, etc.; we know of sculptures depicting a leopard head, the royal totemic animal par excellence.

Here, it is a wooden variant of the famous heads in [the same tradition]. It is a prestige object and not a mask, so it was not intended to be worn by its owner.