A rare bwiti dance palette, it could be an emwetse puppet or a tsongo-tsongo puppet head decorated with a face characteristic of tsogho vuvi and sango masks, and incarnating the ancestor. It is decorated with tenons to attach a headdress made of vegetable fibers.
Tsogho, Gabon
Wood, pigments, patina of use.
H. 85 cm
Provenance :
Jacques Viault Collection.
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