Two-faced helmet mask · Gabon, Tsogho/Fang · ID: 3039696
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Size
H: 29,5 cm
H: 11.6 inch
Description
light wood, kaolin, black colour accents, coiffure from cropped plant fibre bunches, nearly identical faces with delicate curved eyebrows, mark on the forehead and cross emblems on the cheeks, the cylindrical corpus open on top and at the bottom, natural coloured, apart from a headband that joins the two heads, slightly dam., minor missing parts (ears), fissures;
reminding of the Fang mask type “ngontang”, which literally means “face of a young white girl”. The name refers to a visitor from the afterlife, where the spirits are white, rather than literal interpretation of “white” as European.