Wé MASK

Culture Wobé, Ivory Coast

First half of the 20th century

Wood, cowries, beads, metal bells and fabric

H.: 30; L.: 19; Thickness: 7.5 cm

Dark wooden mask enhanced with red on the forehead and chin. His eyes are sculpted in the shape of a coffee bean, his beard manifested by a series of metal bells and threads of glass beads. Her hair is made of cowrie shells, sewn onto a fabric headband.

His eyebrows are finely defined. He has a vertical frontal scarification.

He danced during nocturnal rites.

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