Mask with horns "kpan pre" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Baoulé · ID: 3038906

Description

wood, rich blackish brown patina, slightly shining, of narrow form with extremely lengthened nose bridge, framed by a disc-shaped beard with flat zigzag pattern, slightly dam., minor missing parts, abrasion of paint (nose, mouth), small crack (left side of the mouth), base;
belonging to the family of the “kple-kple” masks which perform to honour the buffalo god “goli”. Four pairs of masks appear, two by two, in a fixed order: first a pair of disc-faced masks (usually called “kple kple”), next a pair of animal helmet masks “goli glen”, third a pair of horned face masks “kpan pre”, and finally two human-faced masks with crested hairdos “kpan”.