Kifwebe Mask – Songye

Masked dancers wearing chimpanzee masks, hook sticks and voluminous full-body costumes have turned up at the Dankeran Village Dance Festival to provoke and "heat" audiences with wild jumps and vulgar jokes. The chimpanzee mask offered here is made of light balsa wood and dyed black. It shows the typical form of these "Kagle masks": a protruding, semicircular and flat forehead with a diagonal line at the edge and deep-set slit eyes below (here each has three holes for the previous metal frame), a broad nose between prominent cheekbones on either side, a large, open mouth with wide, pouting lips. Distinguishing features of this particular object are the three holes below the eyes, which were used for an early metal profile (now lost), the original white embossed band on the bridge of the nose, the red tongue with the open mouth, and the embossed band on the inside of the thick lips . There are also embossed decorations on the outside of the cheeks.

Guro masks are dancing masks, and their masquerade is well known in West African villages. They are used for entertainment and to represent social roles. Male dancers don masks and dance competitions are held between neighboring villages.

This African Yohoure mask features a coat of arms on the sides, offering an overlay of engravings and hairstyles Divided into three fortunes. African tribal art sculptor from Côte d'Ivoire This example illustrates mastery. Named Anoman, Lomane, (the bird in Baoulé) will represent it The fourth of the seven ego masks that danced around the dead at first, tilted until you touched them cleaning purpose. He is also currently intervening in the festivities. Worn patina, kaolin highlights. The Yaoure people are a branch of the Akan people who live in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. geographical proximity For Baoulé and Gouros, the influence of these ethnic groups can be felt in the Yaouré art Attention to detail and aesthetics. African art Yaouré or Yauré masks, owned by Baoulé Similar models, divided into two indistinguishable groups, each group, sometimes with Addition of coloured pigments and lo, usually with a dark patina, which appears during the burial Ritual or other rituals to gain the favor of the "Yu" spirit. Masked dancer Yououré, Yahouré, women are not allowed to see, and photos are not allowed