Fine African Art Auction
Lot 193:
Height 24 inches.
Represents the power and beauty of woman. This is a nimbus fertility figure, one of a group of masks from three to six feet tall which are carried over the shoulder. The exaggerated, pendulous breasts are typical of this group of masks, which had a double function: sterile women in the simo society invoked it as a goddess of fertility, and it was used at the first- fruit ( rice) rituals, symbolically associating female fertility with the increase of grains and financial breakthrough.
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