Beautiful Oost-Pende mask - Munyangi - Pende - DR Congo

Excellent patina of wear, good age.

The eastern Pende or Bapende are known in African art for their very graphic traditional masks.
This Munyangi African mask with its pointed face crowned by horns is no exception.
The level of stylization is very high.

In Pende culture, the masks are numerous and varied. They participate in ceremonies that are sometimes festive, sometimes linked to initiations, notably those of the transition to adulthood, mukanda, at the end of which the boys are circumcised and become adult men.