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The animal here is a hyenna, with a beak of bird, Hornbill.
A part of the bone nasale is broken as well as a point of the ear.
Dense wood, white clayey undercoat and points of painting
blue ultramarine on the set.
It is about an initiatory mask used during the ceremonies of Koré.
Koré is an important stage of the initiation of the young children
without which the child could not pass in adulthood.
This mask is delivered without pedestal.
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Because friendship is pleasant, we partake of our friend's entertainment; not because we have not enough to eat in our own house. 
