TOMA LANDAI MASKS ARCHIVES, Guinea

TOMA Mask 31 16" long SOLD*

TOMA STYLE Mask 14 28" high SOLD

TOMA STYLE Mask 4 36" high SOLD

TOMA STYLE Mask 9 48" high SOLD

TOMA STYLE Mask 25 50" high SOLD

TOMA STYLE Mask 20 26" high SOLD

TOMA STYLE Mask 2 56" high SOLD

TOMA STYLE Mask 6 53" high SOLD

TOMA STYLE Mask 29 41.5" high SOLD*

TOMA Mask 28 20" high SOLD

TOMA Mask 27 15.5" high SOLD

TOMA Mask11 17.5" high SOLD

TOMA Mask 13 28" high SOLD

TOMA Mask 1 SOLD

TOMA Mask 23 SOLD

TOMA Mask 8 SOLD

TOMA Mask 15 SOLD

TOMA Mask 16 SOLD

TOMA Mask 17 SOLD

TOMA Mask 19 SOLD

TOMA Mask 24 ,SOLD

TOMA Mask 5 SOLD

TOMA Mask 7 SOLD

TOMA Mask 22 SOLD

TOMA Mask 26 SOLD

These brooding, often quite large, masks represent a forest spirit, Landai. They were used by the men's Poro Society to initiate boys into manhood. The masks, in what was often a frightening ritual for the boys, would symbolically swallow the boy, who would then re-emerge as a man. The masks were worn with a large raffia costume. Most have a flat face, the traditional beaked nose, jaws of teeth, protruding brow and horns.