An amazing Gelede Mask, Yoruba, Nigeria, in shape of a marionette, the two persons on top, who are holding a coffin in their hands are moveable by strings, with a smal window you can look inside of the coffin to the cardaver, "Qui est propre?" (Who is clean), A mask that was worn at funeral ceremonies and expresses humor and irony with a subliminal laugh that is alien to Western Christian funerals; colourfull painted surface, psartly covered with fabrics.

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