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Lot 4002

A Mende Bundu helmet mask
ht. 17 1/4 in.

Ending from 8 May 2025, 13:00 EDT
Online, Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

US$700 - US$1,000

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A Mende Bundu helmet mask

Sierra Leone, from the Sante society, of typical form, the mask with a finely incised coiffure encircling the upper portion with two side knots and a top knot missing the finial, with a snake of either side of the coiffure, the lower portion accented by stylized rolls of fat, pierced about the perimeter with a fiber collar attached, black variegated surface, (minor wood loss).
ht. 17 1/4 in.

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Provenance: Private collection, Baltimore, Maryland; Engelman collection, 1987.

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