African mask

Ethnicity : Toma

REF: TOM04

Importation:  Guinée

Size: H30cm L22cm

Weight : 750Gr

Description of Toma

The TOMA ethnos groups of Eastern Guinea, LOMA in Liberia, and KPELLE or GUERZE area, frontier live on the covered plates of dense forests of the African west. Their masks are characterized by human features, projecting nose and face, bores, eyes tubular or raised by metal discs. C is a type of mask derived from L Sudanese art. The political and cultural organization, the poro treats on a hierarchical basis L together company. The mask, intended mainly for L initiation of the young boys, becomes agent of legality and spiritual residence for the late ones, the virtue of dead radiates in the company of the alive ones.