Baule style mask - Lot 322

Baule style mask Ivory Coast Wood, pigments Height : 48,5 cm Mask with a red face crowned with a large circular headdress decorated with basketry. It is prolonged on the curved forehead by two semi-circles decorated with small triangles in brown relief on a white background. The face has a cordial face with coffee bean eyes, a long pointed nose and a mouth carried forward. This mask is used during the popular Goli show which lasts one day and involves the whole village. It is held for simple entertainment but also for funerals of important people. During the show, the masks appear in a precise order: the Kple Kple, the Goli Glen, the Kpan Pre and finally the Kpan masks which arrive in a very theatrical way when the public is, at the end of the day, plunged in euphoria. BAULE STYLE - MASK 48,5 CM