Woman Touching a Chest
Little curious votive statue depicting a young woman kneeling in meditation attitude with her right hand leaning on her leg and left…
EFM-30
Guinea (Conakry)
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Nimba mask
It is the best known mask of the baga. Also called d’mba, in vernacular.
MHB-2
Facial Landai Mask
The Toma Sierra Leone, Guinea Conakry, Liberia and western Ivory Coast are in place.
MFANT-73
Bracelet
Fine and simple ivory bracelet whose reddish color appears to have been obtained with palm oil.
PYB-35
Nimba carrier
The Nimba mask is used by members of the secret society Simo and represents the goddess of reproduction and fertility.
FRT-14
Mask Ventral Passport
Small passport mask that reproduces a ventral mask. Belly or ventral masks are used by different ethnic groups to represent motherhood.
MPS-36
Snake Mask A-Mantsho-Na-Tsol
This large, flat, triangular-headed snake with round eyes and wavy body with geometric drawings that plot its body with triangles represents…
MFG-51
Female Statue
Curious statue of a woman with her hands on her waist and elbows folded with her arms back.
EFM-61
Drum N-Def
The Drum Baga with female (or male) cariatids belongs to the SIMO society, as does the NIMBA mask.Caryatids drum of the drums…
MEMB-1
Axe of Ceremony
Ceremonial double-leafed axe, with the head of a Nimba mask as a finish and a small bronze mask at the intersection of…
BST-7
Stela Funeraria
These funeral stelae were placed in the tombs of deceased elderly people.
PDR-4
Pomdo stone
The Kissi they grow the land and mainly rice. Kissi are steatite funeral statuettes that appear in a fetal position.
PDR-5
Nimba mask
It's the best known mask of the Baga. Also called D’Mba, in vernacular.
MFG-58
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
Numbe
Great affinities and similarities with the Baga and the Nalu They live on the Boké Plateau, in the Kakandé, where they would…
MFG-78
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-80
Initiation mask
Very rare initiation mask Toma and by the horns he carries over his head belonging undoubtedly to some secret society of hunters…
MFAZ-123
Nimba mask
It's the best known mask of the Baga. Also called D’Mba, in vernacular.
FRT-48
Snake Mask A-Mantsho-Na-Tsol
This large, flat-headed triangular snake with round eyes and wavy body with geometric drawings that plot its body with triangles represents…
MMN-6
