Where is African? mask from exactly?

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  1. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Bought this for $20 at a 2nd hand furniture store yesterday (they found it in storage unit of furniture they'd bought) - can anyone tell me what tribe/area it is from?
    Thanks!

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  2. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It is a souvenir mask made in the style of the Punu, Gabon. Others on the forum will know more about it.
     
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  3. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    Something very similar to this mask was posted fairly recently by Lovethehunt!
    This looks like the same one?? Even down to the scuff marks?
     
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    Houseful Well-Known Member

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  5. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

    The plot thickens...
     
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  6. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    Hmmm, it certainly does.
     
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  7. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

    Maybe Journey can elaborate but I believe this is the third item he has posted that love the hunt has previously posted. I think with the previous two supposedly there was a friend in common between them who they both bought and sold from. Not sure how this one would fit into that circle since Journey says he got it from a furniture store.
     
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    2manybooks Well-Known Member

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  9. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

    It’s like Re-Gifting, except there’s cash involved. :hilarious:
     
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  10. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Journey, maybe you should buy directly from Lovethehunt?:hilarious:
     
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  11. aaroncab

    aaroncab in veritate victoria

    Perhaps something we haven't considered yet is that there is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation going on here... except based in the world of thrift store picking.
     
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  12. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    The thought did cross my mind, but I was too scared to go there.:nailbiting::bag:
     
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  13. wiscbirddog

    wiscbirddog Well-Known Member

    Somebody needs to cut out the middle man!
     
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  14. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Except the middle man knows lovethehuny better than me obviously!
     
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  15. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

    Is the middle man the same fellow who spotted your two paintings?
     
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  16. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

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    2manybooks Well-Known Member

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  18. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    Actually I did get this from same middle man! I thought I'd emptied bag of his stuff but thus & another piece (some kind of oil burning bird lamp) was still in his last bag - but I also had 4 or 5 bags of smalls from my friends furniture store in the trunk & when digging through them I saw this and thought it was from my friend's store.
    Damm getting old is scary! (My girlfriend is in my ear saying it's not getting old it's having too much stuff!!
     
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  19. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    You went digging through your friend's bags of smalls?:jawdrop:

    Some days I really dread reading posts on Antiquers...:eek:
     
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  20. journeymagazine

    journeymagazine Well-Known Member

    My bagS !
     
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