African mask Vintage Hand Carved Baule Authentic Handsome Bull mask Masks for wall-G2486

SIZE(CM): 30.5/19.1
The masks tribes of this region, such as the Tumbwe masks, worship the ancestors mipasi masks through masks held by chiefs or sorcerers. A magical charge (dawa) was introduced to the top of the head of the statues. Soothsayers used such objects to expose witchcraft and protect against evil spirits. The Tabwa, a simple farmers without centralized power, united around tribal leaders after being influenced by the Luba. It was mainly during this period that their artistic current was expressed mainly through statues but also through masks. The Tabwa worshipped ancestors and dedicated some of their statues to them. Animists, their beliefs are rooted around ngulu, spirits of nature present in plants and rocks