Zoomorphic mask "wan noraogo" ·  Burkina Faso, Mossi · ID: 3038109

Description

wood, encrusted sacrificial patina, polychrome paint, depicting a rooster, completely decorated with carved and painted geometrical ornaments, dominated by a comb and a long bent beak, pierced around the rim, min. dam., small missing parts, cracks, traces of abrasion, base;
all masks of the Mossi have totemistic character and are part of genesis myths of the clan they belong to.

Littérature comparée

Roy, Christopher D., Land of the flying masks, München 2007, ill. 105