13-27" high $600 |
15-25" high $550 |
13-21" high $400 |
13-27" high $600 |
15-25" high $550 |
13-21" high $400 |
 18-25" high $500 |
 22-25" high $550 |
 15-28" high $500 |
 16-25" high $700 |
 16-29" high $500 |
 14-18" high $400 |
 22-31" high $550 |
 9-18" high $400 |
 15-20" high $500 |
 10-22" high $400 |
 18-22" high $550 |
 14.5" high $400 |
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Worn during male initiation ceremonies, masks like these represented all departed ancestors. Mourning songs were sung during the ritual; the vertical lines on the face are tears. Neighbors of the Yaka, Suku masks are more conservative in their facial treatments. Although styles vary, there is usually a massive collar of raffia and often a figure or animal on the top of the mask.
The measurements are first for the mask, then the mask including the raffia. Only #25 is not a helmet mask.
Despite their apperance, these masks show no evidence of having been danced and might have been made to be sold.
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