Facial mask Zauli

The Guro In addition to great sculptors, they perfectly manage polychrome. A whole series of masks appear in the last years of colonization, thanks to the introduction of European paintings, specifically French, being at the time the Ripolín brand the most important, so that masks with abundant polychrome receive ironically the name of "Ripolín masks". His famous masks Zauli and Zamble Nor do they appear to be much earlier than the 1950s. This mask, with a dominant black and a red and yellow very cities, comes from the seventies. It depicts a woman with a male character mounted on a scimer, holding solidly with both hands the antelope horns that come out of the front of the mask. Despite representing a female face they are danced by men, in the Z danceauli.