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Lot: 670
Mama.MANGAM mask. Nigeria.

The Mama celebrate propitiatory rituals in which they use buffalo and antelope masks to honor their ancestors and thus procure good harvests. They believe that the strength and fertility of these animals stimulate and renew the participation of ancestral spirits, as shown in the photograph.

In this exceptional water antelope mask, we observe incisions in the sagittal crest that allude to the scarifications, identity of the tribe while red abrús seeds, far from being mere decoration, subtly outline the eyes and the nostril of a face in such a stylized way that we can say it occupies an intermediate phase between the pure representation of the animal and the hybrid masks skull that now clearly merges the human head with animal attributes (horns) typical of the Kantana, one of the five peoples grouped under the name Mama. 51cm height

Object
MANGAM mask
Country
Nigeria
Measures
51cm height

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DECORATIVE ARTS
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