African Vintage Hand Carved Bobo-Bwa, Burkina Faso an old tall plank mask-2093
Bobo-Bwa, Burkina Faso: an old, tall plank mask-85/17.7 CM. Such tall plank masks’dance’ alongside the Bwa mask people during large harvest mask festivals. The lower mask, round face mask part of this style of mask, called’Bayiri’, represents the head of an owl. The hooked projections symbolise the beak of the hornbill. Bird representations often appear …