Helmet mask "sowei"

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Description

wood, matt greyish black patina, unusual “sweet” features with laughing mouth, ornamental eyebrows, scarifications and coiffure, especially elaborate worked, superstructure in shape of four identical formed seated female figures, slightly dam., cracks, missing parts (arm of a sitting figure), abrasion of paint

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Comparing literature

Philips, Ruth B., Representing woman, Los Angeles 1995, p. 85 ff.

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Publications

Rosen, Mary Sue & Peter Paul, Masks from West and Central Africa, A Celebration of Color and Form, Atglen, ill.. 35

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