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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 3216936, member: 8267&quot;]#2, the Burkina Faso mask, is very similar to one published in <i>Africa in the Market: Twentieth-Century Art from the Amrad African Art Collection. ed. by Silvia Forni &amp; Christopher B. Steiner. Royal Ontario Museum: 2015</i>, which is identified as made by a Nuna (Nouna) artisan, one of the ethnic groups in southern Burkina Faso. This mask was purchased in 1981 from a dealer at the market of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]296738[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>There is an excellent discussion of the art of Burkina Faso, including their masking traditions, here:</p><p><a href="https://africa.uima.uiowa.edu/topic-essays/show/37?start=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://africa.uima.uiowa.edu/topic-essays/show/37?start=0" rel="nofollow">https://africa.uima.uiowa.edu/topic-essays/show/37?start=0</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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