Senoufo Fire-Spitting Helmet Mask, Ivory Coast

Rare and imposing colorful fire-spitting mask with polychrome pastillage depicting a hybrid mythological animal: crocodile mouth armed with fangs and tusks, long antelope horns and a cup-shaped summit figure. It is used by the Senoufo of Poro society.

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Origin
Ex French collection