The mixed media Holo-Holo mask, likely used for male initiation ceremonies is constructed of wood, polychrome pigment and fiber. The subject figure portrays a broad triangular-shaped human face with slit eyes, long sharp nose and small open mouth with protruding lips. The object is adorned with dense feather ornamentation on the crown of the head above the circlet of carved hair set back high on the forehead, and an abundant grass fiber cuff. The face is rubbed with a red clay pigment and dark pigmented carved hair is implied atop the head crown. The dense beard cuff of fiber hangs from the lower half of the face, and the halo of feathers radiates from behined the upper half of the mask asymmetrically.
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