Mask "wan balinga"

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Description

wood, slightly encrusted patina, polychrome paint, vaulted calotte with human facial features, crowned by a rooster’s comb, pierced around the rim, min. dam., missing parts through insect caused damage, slight traces of abrasion, socle;
all masks of the Mossi have totemistic character and are part of genesis myths of the clan they belong to.

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Comparing literature

Fagaly, William, Ancestors of Congo Square, New Orleans 2011, p. 91

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