Bobo Bwa People Zoomorphic Ceremonial Mask

Containers:

Object 4

Scope and content:

Carved wood of medium size with dark brown and black vegetable pigments with white kaolin in the form of a duck's head at base mask face section with ringed eyes, crest and open mouth, rounded out and recessed at back for face when danced; straight mid-section with sideways inverted V motif on either side rising to flat solid section with red ochre and brown triangular motifs; sideway V motif repeated with section from which a second separate smaller bird head is attached; top of mask in the form of a small owl's head with wings, ringed eyes and crest.

Country of Origin: Burkina Faso

Physical description:

Wood

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