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Description : wood, bicolored (horns), pigments, tiny repair at the nose bridge, base Gu is always carved according to the image of a beautiful woman - uanya iri nya. She is the wife of zamble (and his brother zauli). Despite her human like face, the gu mask being is considered a creature of the forest. It is quite possible that the addition of horns to the beautiful female face was intended to emphasize the non-village, forest-bound, and therefore sacred aspect of gu. A stylistically comparable mask from the Karl-Ferdinand Schadler Collection of African Art, illustrated in Fischer / Homberger 1985, Fig. 125 (AHDRC 0060625). Continent: Africa
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