dan 23 mask

this 80 years old Dandai mask was used by the Gbandi as part of the initiation ceremony , it was supposed to swallow the boys and give them rebirth at the end of the Poro - their scarification symbols were in fact mark of his teeth. a bag hidden behind the great jaws enable this spirit to pretend of eating humans - hiding them under his voluminous skirt . Harley - notes on the Poro - Fig 2, p 28.