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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24777849, member: 128351&quot;]Very nice collection of African masks from Gabon, Congo, etc.! Of course they are surely not old, they seem made for collectors but by able craftsmen, with the very same techniques as the ones actually used by secret societies. But your masks are just the wooden part. Usually many are supposed to be completed with straw, fabric, leather, feathers or shells. For example you have on the left of your photo 3 Songye masks (central Democratic Republic of Congo) which are usually supporting a long beard like this one (Not my mask) :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1585268[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This kind of masks is called &quot;chasser la mort&quot; in French (&quot;chase away the death&quot;). There is a male version with a crest, a female version w/o a crest. Seems you have both.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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