FOLK ART Voodoo Fetish Sculpture from New Orleans Mardi Gras vintage mask

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FOLK ART Voodoo Fetish Sculpture from New Orleans Mardi Gras vintage mask:
$525.00

FETISH SCULPTURE ORIGINS UNKNOWN

Size: 8 inches by 8 inches by 4 inches of a very heavy plaster substance Hair Lengths about 6 to 15 inches.

(Cat # Y-01)

Quite heavy about 8 pounds with long lengths of authentic Horse hair attached. It appears to be of some sort of plaster with dark patina and incised marks for texture. It is double sided and Im not sure how it was originally displayed. I put it on a small Picture easel to photograph it.

( I PURCHASED YEARS AGO AT AN ESTATE SALE IN ONE OF THE HUGE OLD MANSIONS IN THE NEW ORLEANS GARDEN DISTRICT)

AnAbstract profile, resembling a primitive face and with a powerfulambiance.

A unique art piece . The details are primitively crafted.

In a raw fetish style. It has an African look would look great in a room with other Ethnic Artifacts.

This is an interestingpiece of Art. Ithas a natural old patina, and is aunique treasure -- How old it is is also a Mystery but it feels very old.

This Sculpture has a haunting that evokes strong power. It resemble tribal fetishes like those from the Congo basin.

This face is , dark coloured plaster stained to a wood tinted withblack patina . Clumps of long hair, and pigment, shows patina of use. This mask, ofan unusual type. Its origin is a mystery. It could have been made years ago for some part of a Voodoo Mardi Gras component for one of the New Orleans Parades. Or it could have been purchased originally from parts unknown by a Ethnic Art collector. Whatever its origins, its a unique piece.

A slight madness lurks in the feeling of this sculpture.

Exhibits some age , minor paint loss and imperfections which only adds to its charm.

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I plan to list more Folk Art in the future. Some of the pieces to be listed on my shop contains early Sudduths, circa 1975â•„80, a time when Sudduth used more \"mud\" in his paintings. These works include log houses, water mills, squirrels, and other mages .Vintage paintings with his mud and spinach juicerenderings are hard to come by. There also are more earlyTollivers and a large number of strong Sybil Gibson’setheral dusty, muted pastel paintings on grocery bags…

Some great abstract works by Willie White, and Roy Ferdinand urbanghetto memory paintings.A few pieces by Mary T Smith, and a number of Calvin Livingston\'s African hammered tin cutouts. Many of his paintings hangprominently in New Orleans House of Blues…..New Orelanian Welmon Sharlhorne who is known for his brilliant detailed line drawings done during hislong stint at Angola Prison.

Also some great retablos and dramatic yarn shields as well as beaded masks made by the indigenous Huichol Indians of Mexico’s remote Sierra Madre mountains.

Other self-taught artists such as MOSE TOLLIVER.I first purchased a Mose T titled \"Tico Bird\" in 1969 and have never stopped.The strength his work is his lack of self-consciousness as to what his art isor should be. It was his sheer impulse to create, and therein lies its power.You can see my book on Mose Toliver in my store.

I am in process of publishing my second book on Folk Artist Juanita Rogers, and in need of an Agent/Publicist. You can read about her on my website and In Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art, Volume One: There is an essay and photography on Juanita Rogers (1934-1985), who best exemplifies the Outsider Artist.Her clapboard and tin two-room shack was nestled in the middle of a cow pasture fenced in by barbed wire. Her porch was filled with strange sculptures.There were human, animal, and vessel forms of cracking clay embedded with mule and cow bones, teeth, fossil shells, glass, Spanish moss, and coffee grounds, identified by Juanita as Ram Men, Goat Men, and Jungle Women.