Elongated wooden mask made by the Mossi people in the Yatenga style. The circular face appears, as typical of these masks, with only two holes for the eyes and divided in a perfectly symmetrical way by a serrated nose-like structure that goes down from the forehead, to the chin. This specimen still keeps the decorative raffia around the face. Above the head a pair of horns and a tall structure ending in a human figure.
NOTE – For a similar specimen see: Sdotheby's, Paris 11th of June 2008, Lot 93.
Provenance: Parisian collection of the painter Arturo Carmassi (Lucca 1925 - Empoli 2015). This piece had come through the inheritance of the collector and humanist Renèe Druart (Grasse 1888 - 1961) whose daughter Carmassi had married.