BURKINA FASO, Dance crest featuring a stylized... Lot 328

BURKINA FASO, Dance crest featuring a stylized head with angular, cubist features, personifying a rooster with a large, balanced, serrated crest. Wood, natural red and white ochre pigments, fire-brown decoration. Mossi, Ouagadougou region, Burkina Faso, 20th century. L. 40 cm - L. 40 cm Reference number: Expert : Serge Reynes Note: These masks were used for dances, circumcision celebrations and funerals. The inner part of these masks was also used as a libation cup for peanut-based dishes to protect the harvest, or millet beer in the case of a festival in honor of their ancestors.