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Mask. Demonic face with a high ridge as the nose, and three globular protuberances, each smaller than the preceding one, forming the mouth. It is made in a wrapped coiled technique, and is covered on the outside with some form of gum or mastic and painted in geometric designs in coloured pigments. The local name for it is 'baba-tagwa'.
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