African wood mask antiques Carved Vintage Wall Hanging Guro Face Masks for wall-8656

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A beatific face mask from the Guro mask people of the Cote d'Ivoire mask ). Wood with paint mask and white mask pigment at the mouth. Possibly created by a known 20th century carver, but no provenance can be traced. One of the main ancestral female characters who appears at traditional dance celebrations, she smiles benignly, her eyes and brows raised in an expression of merriment. Her braided and plaited three-lobed coiffure is adorned with banded ring forms and cowrie shells, symbols of prosperity and status. The mask..