MAKONDE HELMET MASK 13

MAKONDE, HELMET MASK 13, 9", $500, © Tim Hamill

These unusually realistic heads include strong, portrait-like features, real human hair applied in shaved patterns and raised facial scarification. They represented an ancestral spirit in initiation ceremonies and served to express their moral code.

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