
Yanyaleleya de Bronze mask
It's the mask from whose forehead a big beak comes down to the chin.
BR-2
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It's the mask from whose forehead a big beak comes down to the chin.
BR-2

The Bidjogo always present in their masks an animal or a fish.
MFG-21

Family altar intended to worship ancestors.
OYA-1

Important, ancient and powerful fetish used exclusively by sorcerers for the practice of the various rites surrounding the Voodu.
FET-39

Ancient, rare and powerful fetish used exclusively by the sorcerer in the rites accompanying the Vudu.
FET-40

Mask intended to worship the twins, is front page by the initiated members of society Moukouji on the occasion of the funerals.
GML-4

It is believed that the origin of the Geledé cult occurs on the occasion of the mythical passage from matriarchal society to…
MCYC-20

The secret Bwiti association ensures the union of the group.
MFAZ-47

Small bronze mask perfectly following the ethnic group’s artistic conventions.
BR-3

Stylized mask Fang with a face, painted with kaolin, heart-shaped.
MFANT-118

Mask bearing on its head a pair of dignitaries seated on a Baule bench.
BR-4

Representation of a Kpelié mask with thin and elongated cylindrical horns bent down.
BR-5

Mask from the north of the Senufo country, with marked dogon influence, as can be seen from his nose in the form…
BR-6

Representation of a mask baulé with two animals on the sides of the top of the head that could be hyenas or…
BR-7

Representation of a kpelié mask with a stylized calao on the head.
BR-8

Funeral wooden urn intended for reliquary to preserve relics of the ancestors.
RLC-20

Rare senufus bronze mask whose patina attests to an important antiquity.
BR-9

They are known as legless statues, being represented with a torso, artistically scarified, that reaches practically to the ground, They are real…
EMS-47

On the head are raised two horns whose extremities are joined together forming a fully circular crown, inside of which is a…
MFAZ-49

The artistic production of the Lwalwa is quite small, except for their masks, which are well known.
MFANT-119

Mask that has an abundant decoration, in which stand out the rows of cauris and elongated beads.
MFANT-121

Old fetish Nkissi Konde, with his right hand raised pra carrying a knife or a spear.
FET-41

It is a bird mask used in ceremonies intended to honor the twins and at the same time is a talking mask.
GML-5

This mask represents the spiritual power or “Yu”. His artistic canons are quite similar to those of his neighbors.
MFAZ-87