Mask Helmet Nam Gbalang
Old helmet mask with remains of crusty patina.
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Mask Helmet Agbogho Mmwo
Mask of the village Okoum. It represents the spirit of a deceased young woman.
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Mask Helmet Agbogho Mmwo
Mask of the village Okoum. It represents the spirit of a deceased young woman.
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Helmet Mask
This type of mask is at a time facial mask and helmet mask. It is decorated with braids.
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Yelmo mask
Only the small upper figure allows us to guess that this is the mambila mask.
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Mask Helmet Gnil
Helmet mask oval shape, with front scarifications and on the cheeks.
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Helmet Mask
Masks with human faces represent “Lighthouse“ Creator and guide of the universe.
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Gelede helmet mask
The Gelede cult, practiced mainly by the Yoruba Westerners, it is a cult in honor of living or deceased elderly women.
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Helmet Mask
This helmet mask carries to one side a sculpture representing a founding member of the female clan and on the other side…
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Mask Helmet Okuyi
Decorated with triangular motifs, especially on the forehead and chin, painted red, white and black.
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Ngondo Starter and Funebre Mask
Curious Ngondo initiation mask.. The aTsogho practice circumcision.
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Helmet Mask
Rare mambila mask with voluminous and hanging ears.
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Egungun mask
It represents the wife of Obatala, an orisha of the Earth surrounded by her children.
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Sorcerer Mask
More of a sorcerer with a beautiful black patina. His morphology is similar to that of the Bwoom masacras.
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Mask Cimera Njabi
Small Njabi scimer of great beauty of lines and dark honey color.
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Mask Helmet Gelede
Gelede society practices the cult that gives its name to older women, “our mothers” (awon sya wa) who can use their powers…
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Helmet Mask
It is believed that the origin of the Geledé cult occurs on the occasion of the mythical passage from matriarchal society to…
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Mask Cuenco
Rounded mask like most of the scarce luba masks, with a certain resemblance to the female kifwebé masks, but it seems to…
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Mask Helmet Zoomorph
Helmet mask depicting a monkey with some humanized features.
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Mask Helmet Gelede
It is believed that the origin of the Geledé cult occurs on the occasion of the mythical passage from matriarchal society to…
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Facocero Helmet Mask
Mask representing the facocero, or wild boar, abundant animal in the country Mossi of mainly Muslim population.
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Waniugo helmet mask
A mask belonging to the Kponiugo or waniugo group, which is itself one of the five types of Wabelé masks.
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Initiating Cimer
The Wawa are a small ethnic group, neighbors and relatives of Igbomainly in the north of the capital of Nigeria, Abudja, on…
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Mask Hiccup Helmet
Mask representing a male horse hypothragus or antelope, also known as sable antelope.
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