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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 1076736, member: 55&quot;]I&#039;m not sure, but believe the Baule, (if this is Baule) like a great many ethnic groups, make masks and dance them without eyeholes, at least to judge by some of the youtube videos of their dances.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think one would need to have a bit more knowledge about the particular culture and their styles of dances, and their styles of traditional dance-rigging, to judge for sure whether this was decorative or danceable.</p><p>I could make that judgement for masks of a culture I was familiar with - but not for this one; just pointing out that the meaning of eyeholes, or their lack, varies from one culture to the next.</p><p>My gut feeling is that this is a decorative item, but that is not based on knowledge of the cultural origin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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