Ex-French African art collection. Related to the African masks Okuyi of the Punu ethnic groups of the Shira tribes, the African masks produced by the peripheral groups, Vuvi, Galoa and Mitsogho, are also covered with white pigments for apotropa purposes. The headdress is here extended by a woven raffia trim and a horn-talisman. Grainy speckled patina. The Mitsogho ethnic group, Sogho, is established in a forest region on the right bank of the Ngoumé River. The Bwiti society, or Bweté, which has a reliquary system comparable to that of the Fang and the Kota, formed the cohesion of the Mitsogho families. Their masks were worn at night by initiates under the influence of the hallucinogenic plant iboga, on the occasion of funerals, and then stored in the male initiation house ebanza. The Vuvi produced relatively comparable masks, influenced by their proximity to the Mitsogho.
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