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: E342

: World Cultures

: mask

: head dress

: Skin covered wooden dance mask / headdress(would have been worn on top of the head with a basketwork base and an elaborate hairstyle). Used at feasts and festivals, and especially at funeral ceremonies.

: Southern, Nigeria, West Africa, Africa

: Ekoi