Helmet mask "gelede"

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Description

wood, middle brown patina, black paint, fine plaited coiffure with crowning shock of hair called “suku”, small mouth with long “teeth”, painted dot tattoos on the cheeks, incised scarifications at the pointed chin, inscribed on the inside at the rim: “RC550”, slightly dam., cracks, base

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Comparing literature

Lawal, Babatunde, The Gèlèdé Spectacle, Seattle, London 1996, p. 196, ill. 7.2

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