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A YAKA HELMET MASK
With carved teeth in the pierced open mouth, pierced below the carved and painted eyes, the coiffure with incised bands of geometric ornament and with grooved median crest, a raised ridge about the head above the fiber fringe, handle carved below the chin, painted reddish brown, white and blue, native repair to crack
16½in. (42cm.) high
With carved teeth in the pierced open mouth, pierced below the carved and painted eyes, the coiffure with incised bands of geometric ornament and with grooved median crest, a raised ridge about the head above the fiber fringe, handle carved below the chin, painted reddish brown, white and blue, native repair to crack
16½in. (42cm.) high
Provenance
The vendor purchased the mask in 1977 from a woman who told him she had obtained it from Nelson Rockefeller