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Ethnographic/tribal. A carved wooden mask, Chokwe tribe, Africa, 2nd half of the 20th century, 30 cm.

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Ethnographic/tribal. A carved wooden mask, Chokwe tribe, Africa, 2nd half of the 20th century, 30 cm.

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