Mask - Gabon (No reserve price)

Ikwara - Pounou / Tsangui - Gabon
The masks of Gabon are often named after the rites to which they participate (Bwiti, bwété, byéri, ngil, emboli, okuyi, mukuyi...).
They intervene in all vital circumstances for the community, rites of a social nature (mournings, funerals, illnesses), rites of purification or fertility (birth, adolescence, virginity), rites of reconciliation and justice (to restore the authority of the chief, harmony within families, or resolve generational conflicts), or finally rites of protection (which aim more specifically to attract the good graces of ancestors or spirits...).