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Karan Wemba bird mask - MOSSI -

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Item Details

Description

Date: 1970's

Origin/Tribe: Burkina Faso - Afrika

Material: Wood

Dimensions: 50

Additional Information: Throughout the savanna region of West Africa, commemorative funerals pay tribute to the memory of deceased elders with performances of music, dance, and masks. Among the Mossi of Burkina Faso, a wooden face mask appears at the funerals of revered women. The mask honors a woman whose great age, wisdom, and experience elevated her to the rank of a living ancestress, an ideal intermediary between the living and the spirits of the family's ancestors. Sold without stand

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