MAKONDE, HELMET MASK 18, 9", $400, © Tim Hamill
MAKONDE, HELMET MASK 18, 9", $400, © 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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