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Luba Mask
Luba people, Shaba, Zaire
High 42 cm., wood, pigments
Luba Mask, the rectangular whitened face with incised horizontal grooves, tapered rectangular projecting mouth below the nose which joins the median ridge of the coiffure, pierced slits to the lenticular eyes, red and black painted embellishments, hair tufts in the nostrils.
