A large Bobo Fing Molon mask, decorated with rhoboid patterns, the elongated nose ending in a v-shaped middle ridge, surmounted by two curved horns and a female figure in the center, the rectangular eyes pierced through, the ears in conical shape; different layers of pigments; signs of age and use. partly encrusted

" Among the Bobo, retired masks are not placed on altars as vehicles to accept sacrifices but stored in perpetuity in the recesses of the wasa, the family cacestral shrine house. Le Moal believes thant many such retirees exceed a cebtury in age." Thomas G. B. Wheelock

G. Le Moal, Les Bobo: Nature et Fonction des Masques (Paris: Office de la Recherche Scientifique Outre Mer, 1980). C. Roy, Art of the Upper Volta Rivers (Meudon: Chaffin, 1987), Roy, Christopher & Thomas G. B. Wheelock, Burkina Faso Land of the Flying Masks. The Thomas G. B. Wheelock Collection, 2007; 416

600 - 800,- Euro

Height: 130 cm