| | A large Bobo Molon mask with quadratic patterns surmounted with a monkey-figure, framed with two curved horns, painted patina, signs of age and use. " Among the Bobo, retired masks are not placed on altars as vehicles to accept sacrifices but stored in perpetuity in the recesses of the wasa, the family cacestral shrine house. Le Moal believes thant many such retirees exceed a cebtury in age." Thomas G. B. Wheelock G. Le Moal, Les Bobo: Nature et Fonction des Masques (Paris: Office de la Recherche Scientifique Outre Mer, 1980). C. Roy, Art of the Upper Volta Rivers (Meudon: Chaffin, 1987), Roy, Christopher & Thomas G. B. Wheelock, Burkina Faso Land of the Flying Masks. The Thomas G. B. Wheelock Collection, 2007; 416 600 - 800,- Euro Height: 130 cm |  photo: tribalartforum.com/ identification no. P1046183.jpg | |
