Women's $mask-helmet of the Sande or Budu society, wood, carving, patina, mende people. Sierra Leone, West Africa.
The masks of the Mende people refer by design to helmet masks, i.e. they are worn on the head, which is completely covered by them. Mende helmet masks are cut according to a strict canon, deviation from the sample is possible only in the details of the hairstyle or in the display of the individual characteristics of its owner. Sande women's masks are the epitome of the ideal of female beauty.Every helmet of the sorority can be conditionally divided into three well-decomposed parts: neck, face and hairstyle.🎭