Congo. Balanced composition with a protruding mouth, narrow slotted eyes and enlarged angular noses modeled on several different birds. H. Morlinghen Collection; collected in situ by Dr. T. Fourche, 1930.

Balanced composition with a protruding mouth, narrow slotted eyes and enlarged angular noses modeled after different birds. Masks are the primary art form of this people. Some serve to witness initiations and circumcisions of the youths and others during dances by hunting rituals. The choreography of masked dances was highly complex and had to appease the spirits of the ancestors and compel them to intervene. Details of the mask