Fang mask

African guro masks from central Ivory Coast This monoxyle sculpture depicts a smiling female face with a tambourine hairstyle. That Dark and beige tones and plum highlights on the face enhance the space. Under the Mande Group in the south, in the center of Côte d'Ivoire, on the banks of the Bandama River, Gouro is organized into lineages to form the western neighbor of Baoulé that owns it Borrowed some of the features of their creations. Animists, they used a series of masks Associated with dy Zaouli. In fact, like Baoulé's African Goli masks, all Guro masks are related The genius of nature, with two humanoid masks, followed by a third anthropomorphic mask, namely The woman believed to be the mask Zamblé, Gu. Gu, whose function is to ward off evil, represents a kind of Young women with The Guro-specific beauty standards, especially facial scars and liners teeth. By singing Zambre, gu is in harmony with the sound of the flute beautiful. Dancers dressed in colorful fabrics and vegetable fibers, with The pleochroism of masks and performing various acrobatics in front of attentive audiences. corresponding by Fisher and Homberger