eleo Wood, natural pigments, fiber Height 14in (35.5cm) Provenance Nobel and Jean Endicott Collection, New York Thomas G. B. Wheelock Collection, New York Published Roy, Christopher and Thomas Wheelock, Land of the Flying Masks - Art and Culture in Burkina Faso, The Thomas G.B. Wheelock Collection, Prestel, 2007, pl.45 Wheelock notes (ibid., p. 394), "Monkey masks are often the lead masks in Nuna dance groups. As lead masks, the responsibility for conducting blood sacrifices may fall to them. The emphasis on the mouth and teeth yields a ferocity, which is further enhanced by its attribute, a bludgeon, with which some sacrifices are said to be executed."
eleo Wood, natural pigments, fiber Height 14in (35.5cm) Provenance Nobel and Jean Endicott Collection, New York Thomas G. B. Wheelock Collection, New York Published Roy, Christopher and Thomas Wheelock, Land of the Flying Masks - Art and Culture in Burkina Faso, The Thomas G.B. Wheelock Collection, Prestel, 2007, pl.45 Wheelock notes (ibid., p. 394), "Monkey masks are often the lead masks in Nuna dance groups. As lead masks, the responsibility for conducting blood sacrifices may fall to them. The emphasis on the mouth and teeth yields a ferocity, which is further enhanced by its attribute, a bludgeon, with which some sacrifices are said to be executed."
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