Mask Angbaï O Nyangbai Del Poro
These masks are used interchangeably in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
MFAZ-86
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Hunter Mask
This mask represents the head of a small jungle buffalo with short horns.
MFZ-44
Bufalo Mask of the Secret Society Vabong
Known buffalo mask of the Mumuye The part of the head that represents the nose does not carry any pigmentation.
MFZ-45
Go Ge mask
Fine stroke mask with torn eyes framed in a relief and semi-open mouth with thick lips.
MFANT-184
Ngil mask
This type of anthropomorphic mask was used by the men’s Ngil society, which still exists today.
MFANT-185
Pwo mask
These masks. mwana-pwo represent the beauty of the young woman who evokes, at the same time, the ancestral mother, Pwo, the first…
MFANT-186
Ndunga De Adivino mask
The Kongo have produced numerous types of masks that perform different functions.
MFANT-187
Koré mask
“Koré” is the spirit of the waters.
MFANT-189
Ngoin mask
Although we catalogue this Ngoin mask as a bamún mask because it is the ethnic group in which it is most represented,…
MFC-7
Funerary urn
The term Bura refers to a group of sites in a vast territory in the middle Niger valley.
TRRC-73
Hunter’s Trollop
The Diula are implanted in most West African countries and in the north-eastern Ivory Coast west of the Comoé wildlife reserve, also…
AER-7
Comb
Finely made six-toothed comb with geometric engravings, perfectly following the ethnic group’s aesthetic conventions.
PNS-27
Percussion Bell
Small bell intended to be hit with a wooden stick or hammer.
IDIOF-20
Family Mask
Family masks are not intended for dance or participation in religious, funeral or playful ceremonies.
MFAZ-89
Monkey Mask
KoréIt is the spirit of the waters.
MFZ-47
Antilope Helmet Wan Wid Pelego
Mask helmet with red and black polychrome.
MFZ-48
Numbe-Tonkongba mask
Great affinities and similarities with the Baga and the Nalu They live on the Boké Plateau, in the Kakandé, where they would…
MFG-81
Lighthouse Altar
This statue represents Faro, genius of the waters, that has allowed and favors the fishing of the BozoLighthouse can occur in the…
MSOAL-12
Egan African Colonial Helmet
Heavy wooden hull used by Baulé During the colonial period, these helmets were made by copying the colonizers' salacots.
TCD-7
Mask Helmet Ejumba
Helmet mask belonging to hunter societies. In his time he was a warrior mask.
MCYC-47
Colonial Helmet Egan
Heavy wooden hull used by Baulé During the colonial period, these helmets were made by copying the colonizers' salacots.
TCD-8
Kam Fire Mask
Mask used in evening ceremonies in honor of the deceased. Kam is Ngoin's husband, the female mask.
MAVA-2
Idiok mask
Many of the masks idiok of society Ekpo are masks of disease, of the spirits responsible for sickness or deformation and represent,…
MFANT-191
Idiok mask
In the villageIbibio as in theAnang there is a secret society Ekpo who is responsible for the cult of ancestors and who…
MFANT-192
