Mask

Oval mask, heart-shaped face with long projecting snout in lower half. Boar's tusk nose ornament, with (at top) clay inlaid with nassa shells (missing one side). Cowrie shell eyes. Soft twisted fiber with tassels through holes pierced in projections either side of upper half (ears?), and around bottom of snout. Twisted fiber through hole at top. Projecting decoration down center of top half: stumpy opposed hooks flanking central oval. Line of hooks continued by carved crescents down center of face. Carved crescents also under eyes. painted decoration includes four circles with four-lobed flower shapes (circles white, flowers black with yellow and white dots) and alternating red and yellow scallops around edge. Black, red, yellow, white.