Mende Helmet Mask, Sierra Leone PROVENANCE Stacey Abrams Ornament 50% OFF SALE This rare example is the

This rare example is the only one I've ever seen that still has Christ on the Cross

though this did not kill him

Sierra Leone

Approx: 3" Long

Mende Helmet Mask, Sierra Leone PROVENANCE Stacey Abrams Ornament 50% OFF SALE This rare example is theMende Helmet Mask, Sierra Leone with PROVENANCE A Carved wooden helmet type mask worn by leaders of the All Female Society during the initiation of young women into adulthood. The Mende Culture of Sierra Leone would wear helmet masks which are carved with symbolic features that endow the wearer with spiritual powers endowed with the Transcendence Of Idealized Femine Beauty. Senior Members of the Sande Initiation Society may have worn this work in