Temne Headdress Mask for the Ordehlay (Ode-Lay) or Jollay Society, Sierra Leone #897 Dean Gle Materials: Hand cast bronze hand

Materials: Hand cast bronze hand wrapped as a pendant with brass wire

A: 4" long

Contemporary Stone Lore sometimes calls Tanzanite the “work-a-holics stone

Condition: Very good with fine patina

Temne Headdress Mask for the Ordehlay (Ode-Lay) or Jollay Society, Sierra Leone #897 Dean Gle Materials: Hand cast bronze handTemne Headdress Mask for the Ordehlay (Ode Lay) or Jollay Society, Sierra Leone #897 The Temne, who are related to the Baga, live in small Chiefdoms within Sierra Leone. Villages are socially regulated by Secret Societies such as the male Poro Society and the Female Bondo Association. A Kotu (masquerade builder) created this mask for a Temne Cultural Society, a kind of Mutual Aid Association. These masquerades emerged from Yorb practices transplanted