A Vili/Yombe mask, of hollowed form with open mouth, baring the teeth, the fascial plane white with blackened triangular cheeks and a orange forehead of different layers of pigments, surmounted withf a row of cowrie-shells on raffia headdress, several old handmade nails, probably from the 1940th or before, attchmen-holes at the rim. Coming from the property of a Lady of an old European collection.

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Height: 34 cm
Weight: 1,3 kg

A postcard from the 1930th (?) bythe German Ethnologist Robert Visser, who worked about Nail fetishes in the Congo, Chiloango River Area