Eket Circular Mask

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Eket Circular Mask

Wood, high 29 cm., diameter 25 cm.

Eket Circular Mask, this circular Eket mask is with pierced crescent eyes, with nice triangles about the border, painted red, blue, yellow, white and black. The Eket people produce panelled and circular mask. The masks are used during ceremonies related to their Ekpo secret society. Eket people live to the west of the Oron people, near the sea.