Ekuk mask

The mask called Ekuk, heart-shaped, represents a forest genius in the form of an antelope of great horns. Their heart-shaped horns also surround the head and can be opened or closed by joining under the chin. This mask appears in the initiatory ceremonies, in the funerals of the notables and in certain rites of the Bwiti, as one destined to drive away the sorcerers. These masks share animal and human elements. It always dominates the white color of kaolin, color related to light, death and fights against evils. To this end, most of the time these masks are hung on the walls of the houses.

Some of these masks, as in this case, wear a kind of side arms that depart from the top of the head and surround the face leaving an empty space between the two. In each of rstos arms there is a small mask pibibuze, that are masks with human faces.