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This fly whisk has a rounded circular handle with an elephant standing on top of it. The handle is carved wood with a brown patina, covered with 24K red gold leaf. The shaft of the handle has ancestral faces. The horse tail attachment for shooing…

In the Lagoon region of the Ivory Coast, the Attye and Ebrie people have statuses of full-frontal female figures which possess the distinct feature of raised coiffure and a rich patina.

This spoon is made of carved wood with a dark brown patina and a recessed oval-shaped bow. On the handle of the spoon is a full figure standing on mound base with his hands on his chest.

A male figure sits with his legs up and his right arm supporting a monkey seated on top of his head. Carved wood with dark brown patina.

This male figure with mirror eyes stands on top of a shell-shaped base with a human head at one end. There are two openings for inserting herbal medicines.

A pangolin (or scaly anteater) stands on a flat base. Rising from the middle of its back are the neck and head of an antelope. The base has four holes for attaching to a basketry cap to be worn on a person's head. The antelope is covered with animal…

This monkey figure is referred to as a gbekre, a brother of the buffalo spirit known as Guli. It is carved out of natural unstained wood. This figure fulfils a deity role by receiving offerings in agricultural rituals and protects the living. A…

Diviners (highly respected fortune tellers) use a mouse and a divination pot called a "gbekre" to predict future events.

Fly whisk features two elephants with their trunks entwined around a tree. The center shaft is missing the blue indigenous fabric for shooing away flies. It is made of carved wood with brown patina and 24K red gold leaf.

Goli masquerades are rich with social commentary pertaining to knowledge, gender, aesthetics, and the hierarchies surrounding village life. Communication comes forth through the medium of entertainment with elaborate costuming. Performance takes…