Mask - Gabon (No reserve price)

Masque Teta a Mokeba - Tsogho - Gabon - Masques du Gabon
Mask of the Téta-a-mokeba category, that is to say "the father of grotesque masks".

It appears as a male anthropomorphic entity in all the rites of initiation societies of the Ya-mwèi and the Kono. These rites concern twins, the nocturnal Bwete rites, rites of passage, of death, of mourning...

The semi-hard wood of Yombo and colored with white clay and tukula powder (?). See a nearby example " - Somogy.

Rare and ancient, probably from the early 20th century,