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Carved wooden mask. Mask depicts a long face of a woman, with a long thin nose over protruding bright red lips. Eyes are nearly closed and brows sit close together over top. The lower face is yellow, while the forehead and nose are a rust-red. A large bird is perched on top of her dark brown hair. Its legs are white, body blue, with green wings that are tucked into its sides, and a long red beak connecting with the woman's hair. The inside of the mask is hollowed.
Wooden 'passport mask'. From a pointed chin, the face flares toward wider cheeks and a thick, pointed forehead. Eyes are small slits cut through the wood, and inset under a heavy brow. Nose is small with a sharp bridge. Mouth is small with protruding lips open to show tiny carved teeth. The edge of the mask is decorated with carved lines, containing holes that have been bored through the wood at regular intervals. Back of mask is concave and undecorated.
Twin mask. Carved from wood, two long faces sit side by side, with three small legs(?) below, large rectangular ears alongside, and rounded and lined headdresses above. Between the headdresses stands a hornbill(?) bent over with beak between its legs, wings tucked to its sides. The faces feature pointed foreheads, closed eyes, long thin noses with sharp bridges, and pursed lips showing teeth. Small beards protrude below the mouths. The back of the mask is concave and coloured dark red-brown.
Wooden mask. The carved face has large eyes partially closed below thin brows, a thin nose with a sharp bridge and wider nostrils, and protruding closed lips. Small ears protrude from the high on the sides. Three lines are embossed on the forehead and emphasized with white pigment. A band of painted red sits at the top of the forehead, as well as along the lower eyelids. The head is decorated with stripes of carved diagonal lines. On top sit two figures, arms crossed, one leg bent underneath and the other laying outstretched on the head of the mask. Definded buttocks at back.
Carved wooden mask with hinged/moveable jaw. The jaw piece is prow-shaped, coming to a blunt point at the mouth, pointed at the chin. It is connected to the upper face by thick string tied through each piece. The nose is small with a sharp bridge. Eye holes are wide and narrow, topped with a heavy brow. The carved hair is prominent, with a tall lined protuberance at the centre. Several holes pierce the wood around the outside of the mask. The interior of the mask is roughly carved.
Large gold coloured portrait ring. The ring itself is squared, large, with a join line running horizontally through the metal and visible on the interior as well as the exterior. To the front of the ring is welded a face, slightly convex; imitating a Senufo mask. The snout is square, with a slightly open mouth at the bottom. The nose is wide and protrudes. Eyes are protruding circles, closed. The head is rounded, and arching above it are two long thin curving horns that almost touch, each of which has incised horizontal lines on the front.
Figure of a standing female. The face and head are narrow side to side and wide front to back. The jaw is square and sharp. The mouth is small with a wide nose narrowing toward the brow. Eyes are shallowly carved, cheeks are well-defined. The ears are large inverted U-shapes that protrude from the sides of the head. The hair at the forehead comes to a large point. The figure’s neck is long, shoulders broad and flat. Arms bend slightly and hands are held palms to the front. The breasts are large, conical, and point forward. The stomach distends slightly, with a protruding naval. The buttocks are large and pronounced; knees are bent so that the figure is in a slight squatting position. Feet are placed flat on a small circular base. A pattern of lines is barely discernible on the torso. The figure is covered with a dark brown paint.
Carved wooden portrait mask. The face is flat and broad, with a small rounded mouth above a prominent pointed beard, with vertical line decoration and two holes in the tip. The nose is small, with two large closed eyes to either side with wide slits for viewing holes. Brows are incised and rounded. Hair is indicated at the top of the mask by a checkered pattern carved into the wood. A series of small, regularly sized holes puncture the bottom portion of face at the edge. A support of crossed bark strips creates a stiff grid at the back of the mask, to which pieces of a canvas-like material are attached to cover the wearers head. Feathers are sewn to the fabric on the right side.
Wooden mask has a pointed chin, protruding lips with a hole bored through at centre, a small protruding nose, and wide eyes, almost closed, with viewing slits cut through the wood. The forehead is smooth and large, bulging at top. The sides of the face, chin and forehead curve sharply away from the face. Several regularly spaced holes are bored through the edges of the mask. The interior is smoothly hollowed.
Carved wooden face mask topped by curved horns. The face is flat with a narrow rounded chin, widening toward the forehead. The mouth is small with protruding lips and a hole bored through the centre. To each side is a set of raised horizontal lines. The nose is wide at the nostrils and thin at the bridge. A diagonal line decorates the cheek to each side. Eyes are closed with wide curved slits as viewing holes. The brow is decorated with cross hatching. A raised line sits between the browns and extends to the top of the head, between two large, concave, inwardly curing horns that are ridged at bottom, smooth at top. Along the sides of the mask are four differently shaped protuberances, oval, rounded, square with horizontal lines, and leg shaped with ridges at the bottom. The interior of the mask is hollowed out, and has a set of evenly placed holes around the outer edge.