SOLD - African Reproduction of Bambara Mask Mali

Condition: Pre-owned
Price: $29.95

Location:

New York

Type:

African Reproduction of Bambara Mask

Tribe:

Bambara / Mande

Country:

Mali

Materials:

Wood

Age:

10-20 years

Dimensions:

16" x 5" x 3” (HxWxD)

 

This item is SOLD!

Bambara masks are used during rituals of initiation, and in the occasion of other events like weddings, births, circumcisions, deceases, funerals, purifications of objects and beings, etc. Bambara masks receive offerings and sacrifices, and they are even solemnly buried following an appropiate rite when its role of intermediation has ended, and lost their sacred character.

 

The mask depicts a streamlined human face, pointed chin, small eyes, great nose, small mouth and salient lips. It is ended by vertical horns that represent the "dyo" societies in reference to the world of the spirits. The nose is pronounced and of remarkable size. Among the Bambara, it is the organ of the feeling, and therefore of the cohesion and the social agreement. The mouth, enemy of the man and sometimes of the society, is small and sometimes nonexistent.

 

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