Mask

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Description

wood, dark brown patina, red and white pigment, oversized nose, bonnet backside, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion.
Presumably belonging to the mask type of “nyibita” which is associated with a young warlord, and was danced at the court of the Kuba monarch.

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Comparing literature

Herreman, Frank & Constantijn Petridis (ed.), Face of the Spirits, Tervuren 1993, p. 140 f.

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