Antelope Mask - 66cm - Gurunsi - Burkina Faso (No Reserve Price)

The most common are masks representing wild animals such as buffalo, elephant, lion.
And the antelopes, especially, with of course, the antelope combs of the Bambara, those of the Kurumba. . . But there are also many mask helmets or combs, often very fine and refined just like the original model.
The antelope is an animal present in many origin myths that tell how it came to help the founding ancestor of the lineage.
There are many species, and under the generic term antelope, one includes species such as the Hippotrague or horse antelope, the Oryx, the Bongo, the Harnessed Duiker, the Buffon's Cobb, and the Cephalophines.