Mask - Wood - Guro - Ivory Coast

A Guro mask, Ivory Coast, Sonolá region, from the Guiritafla village, of oval hollowed form and curved profile, a protruding, closed mouth, a slender, narrow, nose with finely shaped nostrils and sharp-edge bridge, framed by slanted, pierced slit eyes under sickle-shaped brows, traces of white kaolin on the lids, the ears form semicircle with a triangles embedded in the middle, domed forehead, fine grooved hairstyle with a plait above, around the pinned up hair probably a band that has pockets to hold verses of koran, pierced through at the rim for attachment; reddish shiny patina, traces of age and ritual use, provenance Amadou Bouaflé. This mask is coming from the same village like another excellent Guro-mask, provenance Amadou Bouaflé. And other exemplare of the mask of the Sonolá region, which is coming from the workshop around "the Master of Bouaflé". Lit. : Eberhard Fischer: Guro-Bildhauer. In: Eberhard Fischer/Lorenz Homberger: Afrikanische Meister. Kunst der Elfenbeinküste,Zurüch 2014, p. 23-61. Amadou Bouaflé, during his performance on 30. 12. 2019 in his house in Abidjan, Ivory Coast (Last photo) .