Lot Essay
Perrois illustrates the form in a somewhat similar mask called emboli from the Makoko region of Gabon (1979, fig. 292), and again in a photograph taken by Marenthier (Perrois, 1986, p.78)
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A RARE KOTA MASK, the curved whitened face with conical projections above the small pierced eyes, large arched brows, small triangular nose and engraved mouth, tall flat curved crest, with blackened crest and features, minor damages
40cm. high
40cm. high