Mask "wan balinga" ·  Burkina Faso, Mossi · ID: 3032929

Description

wood, matt encrusted patina, polychrome paint, vaulted calotte with human facial features, four sights, crowned by a rooster’s comb, pierced around the rim, rep. (comb), min. dam., missing parts through insect caused damage, slight traces of abrasion

Comparing literature

Förster, Till, Skulptur in Westafrika, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, p. 50, ill. 1-6