3 Dimensional Mask from Guinea, West Africa - $90 in Kelowna, British Columbia for sale

This carved wood mask is from Guinea in West Africa. It measures 17" high and is 10.5" diameter at base. The artist has stained aspects in black to enhance the sculptured mask. It depicts a hat at the top, under that is what appears to be a large fly, then a carved decorative head piece and then a face. The piece is strong and solid.

I was told that this type of mask is worn by the women who perform the Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision. My thinking was to take any mask that hid this hideous crime from the child demands to be taken off the market. It provides a perfect forum to talk about this now illegal, but still active crime.