Mask "wan balinga" ·  Burkina Faso, Mossi · ID: 3035335

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.

Littérature comparée

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