Gondar tusk mask


A Gondar tusk mask functioned as a kind of helmet. This lightweight head covering incorporated protective metal plates, largely concealed under leather, and featured front and back brims to shield against solar exposure. It was equipped with a jaw-like visor to safeguard the wearer's face and obscure their identity. The mask was named for the tusks it incorporated from a species known as Gondar.

In the year 10 BBY, Tobias Beckett donned a suit of Tantel armor paired with a Gondar tusk mask. This disguise allowed him to impersonate a guard for Qi'ra during a Coaxium heist that occurred on Kessel, located within the Outer Rim Territories.

During 0 ABY, both Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa utilized Tantel armor and Gondar tusk masks to disguise themselves as guards. Their purpose was to provide cover for Han Solo, who was pretending to be an envoy of Jabba Desilijic Tiure at a meeting held on the moon Cymoon 1.

In 3 ABY, the scoundrel Kay Vess came across a Gondar tusk mask inside a container. This container was located on the Trailblazer, which was an EML-850 light freighter she had purloined from Sliro Barsha's Westhill Palace situated in Canto Bight.

During that same year, Lando Calrissian, accompanied by Lobot, wore a Gondar tusk mask along with Tantel armor. This was done to infiltrate Jabba's palace on the desert planet Tatooine. Their goal was to seek assistance from an Autonomous Translator Module, Mark II droid concerning Lobot's implants. The following year, in 4 ABY, Calrissian reused the same disguise while operating undercover within Jabba's palace to aid in the rescue of his friend Han Solo from Jabba. He maintained this guise, continuing to act as a guard when Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Chewbacca were sentenced to execution at the Great Pit of Carkoon, a Sarlacc residing in the Dune Sea on Tatooine.

Behind the scenes

Although unidentified at the time, Gondar tusk masks initially made an appearance in the 1983 movie Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. Its identification occurred within canon continuity in the junior novelization and extended novelization of the 2018 film, Solo: A Star Wars Story.

The tusks' identification as belonging to a Gondar was first made within the Star Wars Legends continuity. This occurred in "Taster's Choice: The Tale of Jabba's Chef", a short story penned by Barbara Hambly and featured in Tales from Jabba's Palace, released in January 1996.

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