Mask

Pende people, African, Democratic Republic of the Congo

20th century

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Pair of twin figures, one male and one female, of carved wood, each with an elaborate coiffure bathed in blue pigments, with scarification on the face, wearing traditional ornaments, the female figure additionally with a necklace of red beads and a waistlet of blue beads.
Blackish-brown glossy vessel has round bottom and slopes inward toward mouth in rounded tiers. Body has incised bands, some filled with herringbone pattern, concentric arcs, and sections of parallel vertical lines.