An Attractive Mid 20thC North African Polychrome Carved Wooden Ceremonial Face Mask sub-Curios 75 inches (overall)

75 inches (overall)

usually around 1

five feet long (as this chest is)

or simply items that tell a story

Rosewood gradually became popular by the 1830s and in the 1840s it was widely used

An Attractive Mid 20thC North African Polychrome Carved Wooden Ceremonial Face Mask sub-Curios 75 inches (overall)Origin: Moroccan Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1940 60 Height: 15. 5 inches Width: 6. 5 inches Depth: 5 inches (all at maximum) The ceremonial carved wood dance mask having a domed oval face with slit eyes, long aquiline nose and mouth, polychrome covered with an ebony and ivory pigment, surmounted with pecking bird headdress. The mask is in superb overall order with only small scuffs and softened wear to edgings