African mask

Ethnicity : Hemba

REF: HEM06

Importation: RDC

Size: H30cm L24cm

Weight : 1000Gr

Description of hemba

 
with superb and gracious sculpture of ancestor whom Hemba produced, one cannot that be astonished to discover this mask sniggerer It would evoke the chimpanzee. These masks would have been used by secret societies Bugado and Bambudye and left at the time of the ceremonies of burial. The dancers, vêtus of a costume of fur, carried a white and black wig evoking the peeling of the monkey colobus. But in a general way, the mask-monkeys are not rare in West Africa. In Burkina-Faso, the mask-monkey very round and is coloured; at Dogon, it is a mask very "stylized" with giant orbits. At Bamana, one finds the mask Ngon or Sula like this one; it intervened when the initiates of the rank of Koré returned from their stay in bush.