- Helmmaske für den Mapiko-Tanz
auction 63, Lot 1005
MODERN, POST WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART
on 8 June 2018
Helmmaske für den Mapiko-Tanz
Differenzbesteuerung
A Very Fine Helmet Mask
For the Mapiko dance. Painted in black and red with human hair applied to the head. Open mouth. The Makonde, numbering some 200,000 people, are a comparatively small, but the artistically best-known, ethnic group in East Africa. Helmet masks (lipico) played an important role in social and religious life of the Makonde and were worn during the mapico dance.
H. 35cm.
Provenance:
Ketterer, Munich (A 155) December 15, 1990, Lot No. 481.
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Illustrated In:
Schaedler, Karl-Ferdinand 2007, Afrikanische Masken, in: Neumeister (ed.) Afrikanische Masken & Werke aus dem Nachlass der Galerie Heinz Herzer, Munich, p. 86.
Schaedler, Karl-Ferdinand 2009, Encyclopaedia of African Art and Culture, Munich (Panterra), p. 404
Exhibited:
Leipzig 2004 (not ill.)
Bibl.: Blesse, Giselher, Art Makondé. Tradition et modernité, Paris 1989; Blesse, Giselher, Kunst aus Ostafrika/Art from East Africa, Leipzig 2004 (Museum für Völkerkunde); Dias, Antonio Jorge 1961, The Makonde People: History, Environment and Economy, in: Portuguese Contribution to Cultural Anthropology, Witwatersrand/Johannesburg (Witwatersrand University Press); Dias, Antonio Jorge, Dias, M. & Guerreiro, M. Viegas, Os Macondes de Moçambique, vol. I-IV, Lisbon 1964-1970; ); Jahn, Jens (ed.), Tanzania. Meisterwerke afrikanischer Skulptur, Berlin/München 1994 (Haus der Kulturen der Welt/Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus/Kunstbau); Kubik, Gerhard, makisi nyau mapiko. Maskentraditionen im bantu-sprachigen Afrika, München 1993 (Trickster) Roy 1997; Wembah-Rashid, J.A.R., Isinyago and Midimu. Masked Dancers of Tanzania and Mozambique, in: African Arts IV/2, Los Angeles 1971: 38-44.