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Lipico Mask with Wax Scarifications
Older style of mapico (pl. of lipico) mask from the Mueda Plateau, Mozambique. Most likely dating to the 1940s or early 1950s, this mask is made of wood, ground nesting beeswax, human hair and natural earth pigment. It is possibly by the same hand as a stopper in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City (inv. #90.2.1594) purchased in 1954 from Dr. Waclaw Korabiewicz (AHDRC ao-0087234-001). Ex collection Merton D. Simpson; ex Christie’s, London, “Tribal Art”, 13 July 1977. Lot 207. AHDRC ao-0086921-001.
10″ H
