Chamba Bush Cow Mask, Nigerialang gbadna height 34 1/4in (87cm)ProvenanceGalerie Hélène and Philippe Leloup, ParisAmerican Private Collection, acquired in 1990PublishedDe Heusch, Luc et al, Utotombo: Kunst uit Zwart-Afrika in Belgisch Privé-Bezit, Brussels: Palais des Beaux Arts, 1988, p. 187, no. 131ExhibitedUtotombo: L'Art de l'Afrique Noire dans les Collections Privées Belges, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, March 25 - June 5, 1988Of large, powerful and abstract form with well-balanced proportions, the curves of the finely delineated horns projecting up and inwards as a counterweight to the squared, broad and gaping mouth, the deeply hollowed dome head pierced around the edges for fiber attachments, as well as through each C-form ear and inside of the mouth, a central ridge runs across the middle of the head and tapers out towards a raised snout with hollowed nostril, the eyes inset with conical metal pegs; fine encrusted ochre and black patina with indigenous repair to the right horn.