Mask "sigma"

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Description

wood, matt patina, polychrome paint, plant fibres, of flat form with a high towering superstructure, a stylized face indicated by painted eye pairs and a handle-shaped appendage in the middle, min. dam., cracks, traces of abrasion;
these masks are from Northern Ghana, but in the formal aspects of their construction they bear some important similarities to certain Gurunsi and Bwa mask styles from Burkina Faso.

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Comparing literature

Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 98

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