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.

This African mask, which creatively combines elements of different animal forms, may be one of entertainment mask. His winged face is reminiscent of a half-breed, half-animal, half-human, a soul nature. Colorful paint. Beneath the Mande group in the south, central Côte d'Ivoire, on the banks of the Bandama River, Gourou are organized by descent, the western neighbors of Baoulé, who have borrowed a few Characteristic of their African tribal artistic creation. Animists who have used home since the 1950s A mask related to the early departure dance. Indeed like Baule's African Goli mask, the Guro suit The masks associated with the genius of nature have two morphing masks, followed by a third The personification is believed to be the woman in the Zamblé mask, Gu. these masks are The property of the family that enshrines ancestors, which they use for ceremonial and sacrificial purposes to attract divine blessings. Priests and soothsayers share major ceremonial functions across ethnic groups The Guro secret society worships the gods of nature through the masks where the gods are should live. Their patron saint, Zuzu, is enshrined in the statue altar. Les masques gu, Gye et Dye, aux mains de notables, ne Sont Exhibition qu'au cours de funérailles Force Majeure ou l'intronisation d'un chef (Kerchache)

show curvilinear patterns associated with ethnic traditional scratches, and This mask has a large concave plate and is representative of Lulua. According to Rik Ceyssens in "The Congo Mask" (p. 156. Ed. MLFélix) and accompanying sketches by H.M. Lemme attest to this Frobenius discovered this widespread pattern of annular scratches on a trip to the Congo Various sub-Luluwa groups in 1905. Bakwa also wears these types of tribal scars. those masks Used for circumcision and celebrity funerals. satin gloss

African masks have horizontal stripes on both sides, all decorated with triangular patterns symbolizing magic amulet. These masks are repainted with each new dance season. there should be similarities With certain mask heaumes of the Markha, another Mandingo group. those heavy masks Usually designed around helmets with crests or angular protrusions An agricultural ritual to restore balance to the land. their importance Boy's Enlightenment