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Description : Second half 20th. C. Punu Mask wood hand painted pigment decoration, Maiden Spirit Mukudji with Horns Gabon African. This type of mask is used by various tribes in Gabon including the Punu and the Lumbo. This spirit Maiden Mask known as Mukudji, Mukui or Moukouji or as duma or mvudi,portrays a beautiful maiden with natural and serene expression on the face. As in life this beautiful maiden wears an elaborate crescent hairstyle. It represents a female guardian spirit in the initiation of young girls, funerary rites, ancestor cults, and also in dances of the full moon. At the burial ceremonies of the Puno society, the mask represented a female ancestor. In the Mukui society, the masked performer, sometimes on stilts, performed at the dance of the full moon. Condition very good. H. 20'' W. 7'' D. 6 1/2''. ''Provenance Anne Narosny African Art Collection Estate'' Sale # 1 of 3''
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