MAKUA MASK, TANZANIA
Facial mask with upper lip labret, Makua Tanzanie.
Height 22 cm, hard wood, dark-brown patina, trace of polychrome.
First half of the 20th century.
Close to the Makonde, the Makua people settled on the banks of Zambezi river. They live in the Mtwara region in the South of Tanzania and North of Mozambique.