MASK - WOODEN CARVED WITH LIZARD DECORATION

Oval dome shaped hand carved decorative mask, coloured black with three red rimmed holes, two forming eyes, one bottom middle forming a mouth. At the top of the mask us a raised stylised lizard head flanked by its front legs. Eyes and nostrils are painted on the front of the lizard face, its carved mouth is painted red. Under the mouth of the lizard, carved on the main body of the mask is a long gold coloured stylised tongue that widens out to a bulbous end that curves to the right at its end. The rest of the mask has painted decorations of cream circles with lines radiating out from the middle. inside the circle are blue, red, green and orange concentric rings and painted decorations that are banana shaped with curved dark green, red, light green and black lines.
On the reverse side screwed into the middle, near the top is an eyelet screw with a string loop tied to it.