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Bayiri (elderly female spirit) plank mask

Ceiba(?) wood pigment fiber, Bwa or Nuna (?)

The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection Gift of Nelson A. Rockefeller 1969

Bwa or Nuna(?) blacksmith (Artist)

Wood-Sculpture

Burkina Faso, Black Volta River region, Bwa or Nuna (?)

Title: Bayiri (elderly female spirit) plank mask

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Ceiba(?) wood pigment fiber, Bwa or Nuna (?).

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