The patina is actually an accumulation of chewed kola nut which is spat upon them and chicken blood offered in sacrifice, as well as soot from wood fires burning in the houses in which they are kept. Both masks have cavities on the back side to hold medicine…
Medium
6 and 7 in/156 and 7 in/15.2 and 17.8 cm high.
Subject
Loma
Provenance
Unknown
Spatial Coverage
Liberia
Medium
Wood
Is Referenced By
William Siegmann, Rock of the Ancestors (Suacoco: Cuttington University College, 1977), 31.
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