Antique Chokwe Bamboo Mask From Congo and Angola 12x8 in Sigma Gamma Rho but most of the meanings

but most of the meanings are now lost

SMALL MASK

Best known are those of the Northern Ibo mmo society

the bones formed a stable base that allowed the image to stand more or less upright

At the death of a chief

Antique Chokwe Bamboo Mask From Congo and Angola 12x8 in Sigma Gamma Rho but most of the meaningsOne million Chokwe (at least 30 different spellings all based upon the name these people call themselves, Kocokwe, in plural Tucokwe) have spread out over a wide area in the eastern Angola, southern DRC and Zambia. Their history dated back to the 15th century, when a Lunda queen married a Luba prince Chibinda Ilunga. A significant member of the Lunda aristocracy so disapproved of the marriage that they migrated south to present day Angola. Once