Makonde images - Makonde male dance mask - Traditional Music & Cultures of Kenya

Makonde Dance Mask - Male

Makonde dance mask representing a male.

Credit: image scanned from Karl Weule's Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse meiner ethnographischen Forschungsreise in den Südosten Deutsch-Ostafrikas (Berlin, Mittler, 1908). Thanks to Paula Willey at the American Museum of Natural History for the photocopies.

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