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Old Bamana Ntomo Mask
Ntomo is a tribal mutual aid association concerned with the education of young boys. Members wear a wooden mask during the harvest-time initiation festival and when begging for food as initiates. The number of horns on such masks (two to eight) symbolizes levels of increased knowledge of a human being. This older example is unusual in having both straight and curved horns parts of which, as is commonly the case, have been lost. Custom mount.
24″
