A YAKA MASK, the wooden face with circular eyes, open mouth and large upturned nose, the whole within an almost circular rim, below the fibre headdress of domed form with four arched panels about a central projection at the top, the whole painted with red, white, black, blue and yellow pigments, dense raffia fringe

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A YAKA MASK, the wooden face with circular eyes, open mouth and large upturned nose, the whole within an almost circular rim, below the fibre headdress of domed form with four arched panels about a central projection at the top, the whole painted with red, white, black, blue and yellow pigments, dense raffia fringe
36cm. high
Provenance
Ulfert Wilke
Exhibited
An Artist Collects, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa, 1975, no.67

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