Facial Mask

Face mask, settler type, painted red with industrial paint. The eyebrows and hair painted black, and eyes in black and white. This type of mask, like statues painted with industrial paintings, is ironically named in Africa as "Ripolin", a famous French brand of paintings sold in all French-speaking countries of West Africa. The mask presents an expression of surprise. Flanking the hair along the forehead a line of V painted in black. Three black dots on the forehead as well as on the cheeks to represent ritual scarifications. Hard wood. For the tool that has worked the mask seems to have been carved in the middle of the century XX Or most likely before.