African wood mask antiques Hand Carved Wooden African Masks of the Goli Masks for wall-G1146

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This flat, circular mask, the least important in the hierarchy of mask of the Goli, equipped with hollowed-out eyes topped with protruding pupils, offers a rectangular mouth in which a teeth is chiseled, in relation to the traditional image of teeth among young people. It is topped with arched horns. The female mask kouassi gbe or kplekple , according to some authors (Barbier-Mueller mask, p.116) is red. Vogel (Baule) indicates, however, that in the Baoulé version of the Goli the male mask is painted red, and the feminine in black. It is likely that this allocation varies from village to village. Usually preceding the manifestation of a series offamily mask. Goli, this circular mask with rounded horns