Vintage African Tribal Dance Wooden Mask 12" X 7" Hand Crafted in GHANA

You have found the missing piece to your Mask Collection! Here is a Vintage Decorative Hand Carved Wooden African Mask from Ghana. In most traditional African cultures, the person who wears a ritual mask conceptually loses his or her human identity and turns into the spirit represented by the mask itself. This transformation of the mask wearer into a spirit usually relies on other practices, such as specific types of music and dance, or ritual costumes that contribute to conceal the mask-wearer’s human identity. The mask wearer thus becomes a sort of medium that allows for a dialogue between the community and the spirits (usually those of the dead or nature-related spirits). Masked dances are a part of most traditional African ceremonies related to weddings, initiation rites and so on. The mask is 12" long by 6" wide, and in excellent preowned condition based on Wear from Age (see Pictures).