African mask Vintage Hand Carved Wooden African African A Fine Coast Dan Mask-3512

31.5/17 CM
A distinctive African mask with matt patination, carved mask from wood with eye surrounds Dan masks are worn by male masked dancers from the Dan people, aslo known as the Yacoubi mask of Coast who straddle the border region with Liberia. Poro society masks were traditionally carved only by initiates of the sdociety and used the give life and expression to spirits whiom the dancers, in a sense, "channel". During the trance like dance the wearer o fthe mask will speak in incoherant tongues which an elder the "translates" and relay to the assembled memebers of the society