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Description : Wood, pigments height 15 1/4in (38.7cm) The front decorated with abstract incised motifs, fine grayish brown surface decorated with black and red pigments and kaolin. PROVENANCE Ledislag Segy, New York Private Collection, New York, acquired from the above in the 1960s According to Cornet (1978: p. 96), Flat masks are for the most part strictly confined to the Tsai group of the Teke tribe and portray an abstractly interpreted human face. They are used by the members of the Kidumu society. The facial features, eyes, nose, and mouth, are only minor elements in a decorative whole accentuated by polychrome. At the same time, the design is a composition of symbols. The headdress ranges from simple to elaborate costumes of woven fiber and cloth, trimmed with feathers and fringes of raffia.
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