African wood mask antiques Carved African Art African Baule Coast Horn Masks for wall-8617

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African art of Côte d'Ivoire and refinement of the plastic expression This Baoulé African mask presents an ovoid face extended from a goatee, and embellished with keloid scars. Overcoming the hull and finely braided mask headband that forms his hairstyle, zoomorphic mask elements, a typicalbaod duality, are associated, in the form offour horns. The polished wood has black reflections and residual inlays of white kaolin mask . Mblo dance masks are part of one of the oldest Baoulé mask artistic traditions and frequently represent an idealized mask character whose aesthetic characteristics will be preferred