Two Ivorian Carved and Painted Wood Animal Form Masks

Ivory Coast, both likely by Djimini or Ligbi people, the first mask with slit form openings for eyes and mouth, two stylized horns culminating in bird's heads reaching down from the forehead, and painted blue and white beard (21 x 7 3/4 x 5 in.); the second mask in the form of an arthropods, perhaps a scorpion, with braided straw straps secured to posterior (19 x 9 x 7 in.).

From the Collection of the late Robert and Judith Weston, Detroit, Michigan

Both with some chips and cracking visible to posteriors, some scattered surface marks.