Mid-Century African Yoruba MaskBeautiful Yoruba mask with a dark wood patina. Facial features are very angular with scarification on both cheeks and forehead. The Yoruba mask is a piece of sculpture that is both artistic and functional. The carved work fulfils one or more of several functionssacred or profane, personal or communal, serious or satirical. As an object it has only its relatively insignificant quota of vital energy that is found, according to African ontology, in all