Mask (Ngbaka? Mbanza?) - EO.1951.13.32
2nd quarter of the 20th century. Wood (Alstonia congensis). RD Congo. Registered in 1951. Acquired from E. Beer.
These masks performed at the male gaza initiation, but little else is known about them. According to some witnesses, who saw the masks as late as the 1990s, they prevented women and uncircumcised boys from entering the gaza camp.
