A FINE MITSOGO MASKETTE

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A FINE MITSOGO MASKETTE

Of oval form with flat facial planes, slit eyes and mouth, broad triangular nose with arching brows, pierced at chin, yellowish color on face with traces of kaolin, dark brown vertical band in the center of the forehead, around eyes, mouth, at brows and chin, 6in. (15.2 cm.) high

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Perrois (1979, p. 267, no. 286) publishes a similar example.