Serpent Bracelet

Lobi people, or Gan people, Burkina Faso, African

19th century

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Tripod cooking pot
Disc-shaped glass trade bead with white, red and turquoise strips
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.
Carved wooden mask with mud packed fiber wig and woven neck piece. Mask used in initiation ritual.