KIFWEBE MASK - SONGYE - CONGO (70399 - J)

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KIFWEBE MASK - SONGYE - CONGO
The mask is shown on a stand for photography purposes, however, a stand is not included with the lot. We can supply you a durable metal display stand for an additional .00
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Africa possesses a long tradition of masking and it is believed that masks were integral to their culture long before the first century B.C. The wide variety of uses for masks, which included rituals of myth, creation, and hero worship, as well as fertility rituals for increase, agricultural festivities, funerals or burials, ancestor cults, initiations, and entertainment, serves to prove that their usage has been extensive for hundreds of African tribes (Black 25). Cave paintings on rock walls from Tassili, Algeria, Fezzan, Libya, and the Bushmen of South Africa are the oldest evidence for the existence of African masks. The Tassili images of dancers with masks were brought to public attention by the expedition of the French explorer, Henri Lhote, even though an Arab traveler, Ibn Batuta, wrote about the images in 1352. These famous paintings suggest that masks in Africa have been used for at least 4,000 years (Mack 39). Eric Herold estimates these images to have been created by nomadic herdsmen possibly between 3500 and 1500 B.C. (World 9). However, some scholars believe, as Segy has reported, that masks of animal heads were used by Paleolithic man at least 35,000 years ago (Black 44). Thus, there is much ambiguity about the origins of African masks, and there is also no evidence to show a continuous connection between these rock paintings and the African masks of the last two centuries, which are seen in museums and photographed for art books. In fact, many popular types of masks are only one hundred years old, while others are mysterious in their origins.
Mask Height : 45 cm
Mask Width : 26 cm
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