Bobo Bwa Circular Hand Painted Wooden Mask Burkina Faso

$300 · Offered by Second Story Books

Burkina Faso. Circular wooden mask with a highly abstract facial composition. The face centers on concentric circular eyes, a projecting vertical ridge nose, and a tubular mouth aperture. The surface is decorated with repeated triangular motifs in black, white, and reddish-brown earth tones. The geometric patterning and circular format are typical of masks from Bwa ceremonial traditions in Burkina Faso, where abstract visual language conveys spiritual and

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