MAKONDE, HELMET MASK 15, 8", $425, © Tim Hamill
This mask is an unusual exception to the normally realistic
heads which 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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