Bobo Painted Wooden Plank Mask Burkina Faso

$2,400 · Offered by Second Story Books

Carved wooden mask of elongated vertical form, decorated with geometric motifs in black, white, and red pigments. The composition features a stylized facial element integrated into a tall superstructure, with deeply incised and painted geometric designs extending across both the front and reverse surfaces. The mask exemplifies the abstract visual vocabulary associated with Bobo masquerade traditions, in which geometric forms and symbolic imagery conveyed spiritual

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