A carved wooden mask with stylized horns and accented with aluminum metal strips as well as a red textile and inset real teeth. Dan Mano peoples, Ivory Coast and Liberia, West Africa. The mask measures 11 x 7 inches , 18 inches tall when adding the plant fiber beard. There is no display stand. Provenance: Field collected in situ by the Taylor family while working for the Peace Corps in the 1960s. The mask has been in their private collection ever since.

fair, well handled and worn, weathered