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Mask: The Bad Spirit

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Mask: Spirit Face

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An elaborate mask has two tan-skinned faces embedded in a larger structure of multi-colored fabrics, tassels, and flowers that forms a female figure. She holds a tasseled garland that attaches to the topmost mask. Both faces have almond eyes and red lips.

Mask with Superstructure in the Form of a Female Figure

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A dark wooden, oval mask is incised and painted with a geometric face. It has white, almond eyes, a circular mouth, and other geometric motifs in white that decorate the cheeks and foreheads.

Mask

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A masklike face with a red lips and black eyes hangs from a large leopard print headdress with swirling train of textile decorated with metallic thread.

Headdress Representing a Water Spirit

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A dark wooden mask has geometric, white circular eyes, a pointed black nose, and jagged white teeth in an open mouth. Feathers are affixed to the top of the work and braided human hair hangs from the sides and chin of the face.

Mask (Gbona Gla)

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A wooden helmet mask represents a female face with almond eyes, full cheeks, and a pointed nose. She has an elaborate braided hairstyle, and rings about her neck. Decorative lines are incised at the corners of her eyes and on her forehead..

Female Ancestral Mask (Ndoli Jowi/Nòwo)

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A wooden mask depicts a male face with a large eyes embedded in radiating carved circles. The head is topped with a royal crown that has a decoratively carved band and a red point on top.

Male Mask

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The face of a wooden mask with a long nose and pointed ears is topped with a wooden, vertical structure with upper and lower cross bars. There are notches at the ends of the crossbar and a pair of black ears carved atop the vertical pole.

Mask (Kanaga)

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Mask Representing an Antelope (Walu)

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A large wooden figure has an oversized head with carved scarification. Flat breasts with carved, erect nipples and scarification flow over the sculpture's curved, four-legged base. The work's face has large ears and a rounded, protruding nose.

Mask with Superstructure Representing a Beautiful Mother

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