BAULE STYLE METAL MASKS ARCHIVES, Ivory Coast

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BAULE 1 SOLD	BAULE 3 SOLD	BAULE 5 SOLD	BAULE 13 SOLD	BAULE 15 SOLD
BAULE 16 SOLD	BAULE 17 SOLD	BAULE 18 SOLD	BAULE 21 SOLD	BAULE 20 SOLD

BAULE 19 SOLD

BAULE 22 SOLD

BAULE 23 SOLD

BAULE 24 SOLD

BAULE 11 5.75" high SOLD

BAULE 8 6" high SOLD

BAULE 27 7.5" high SOLD

BAULE STYLE Head Pendant 7 5.5" high SOLD

BAULE STYLE Head Pendant 10 5.5" high SOLD

BAULE STYLE Head Pendant 12 5.5" high SOLD

BAULE STYLE Metal Mask 26 7" high SOLD

BAULE STYLE Metal Mask 30 5.5" high SOLD

BAULE STYLE Metal Mask 28 8.25" high SOLD

Photographs © Hamill Gallery

The Baule are one of the Akan peoples. They moved west to the Ivory Coast more than 200 years ago and adopted sculptural and masking traditions from their neighbors, the Guro, Senufo and Yaure peoples.

The brass masks, also made individually in wax and then cast, can be wall hung on a single pin. The smaller ones could be worn. The larger ones, without a top loop, have been wired for hanging. Those with eye and mouth openings (14, 25, 26 and 27) were photographed with a black cloth behind them. The openings, or casting flaws, show best on the individual back views.