A FINE AND RARE LUBA SHANKADI HELMET MASK, with pierced slits to oval eyes, pierced nostrils and carved teeth to the parted lips, pierced at the top of the semicircular ears, double crescent crest above, decorated with a pale yellow pigment about the eyes, down the centre of the forehead, nose, temples, diagonals at the neck and rays on both layers of the crest, with attached finely woven raffia and skin panel at the back, the latter with attached further skin strips, raffia fringe below, minor damages