masque - Punu - Punu (ou Bapounou) - Gabon (No reserve price)

The powdered kaolin mask, which is also traditionally used to cover women's bodies during the ceremony. The lips slightly outlined, the cheekbones, the delicate scarifications on the temples, as well as the vein of the eyes are revealed by the red of padouk. The headdress adorning the forehead, composed of nine scales and called magumbi, is an identity motif referencing the nine primordial clans of the mythic history of the punu.