Kplé-Kplé mask
The Kple Kple mask is a Goli mask. The Goli is one of the most important festivities in the village of Baulé.
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Anthropozoomorphic figures
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Face Mask Anthropomorphic
Mask with a human face that looks like a woman with scarifications and sometimes carrying amulets on her headdress.
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Mask of the Koré
Animism among the Bambara is characterized by its secret societies of “N’Tomo” and “Koré”. “N’Tomo” is the masculine spirit that protects…
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Ekuk mask
The mask called Ekuk, heart-shaped, represents a forest genius in the form of an antelope of great horns.
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Ekuk mask
The mask called Ekuk, heart-shaped, represents a forest genius in the form of an antelope of great horns.
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Walu Mask
Walu is the mystical dogon antelope commissioned by the creator god Amma to protect the sun from the lulls of Yurugu, the…
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Mask Angbaï O Nyangbai Del Poro
These masks are used interchangeably in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Family Mask
Family masks are not intended for dance or participation in religious, funeral or playful ceremonies.
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Griot Mask Kpepogla
Mask of griot who can go sing to all the clans. Accompany the griot when travelling.
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Okuyi mask
The Galoa they are established south of Lambarené, on the banks of the Ogoué River.
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Epa Panther Mask
The courage and heroic deeds are symbolized in man by the leopard, hence the numerous ethnic groups that have secret male leopard…
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Del Do Mask
The masks of the Ligbi and of Senufo have great similarities and often cause confusion.
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Facial Angbaï Mask
They have all the same features. Flat face under a embossed front.
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Facial Mask
The masks of the Djimini represent the good geniuses or the spirits of the ancestors.
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Pico Mask of Justice
The Kran are found mainly in southwestern Ivory Coast in the border area with Liberia where there are also some groups Kran.
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Facial Ngoin Mask
The mask Ngoin is widespread in almost all the kingdoms of Grassland or Grassfiels, is a feminine mask, with softer features than…
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Hunter Mask
Mask belonging to a society of hunters.These hunter masks participate in the rites of their secret society and in funeral ceremonies in…
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Okoroshi Oma mask
This mask, Okoroshi Oma, like the Okoroshi Ojo participates in the rituals destined for the cult of water, Owu, rituals that are…
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Facial Mask
Some masks of the Kran similar to those of their relatives GueréMany of them in their origin were war masks intended to…
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Cantora mask
It is a mahu diomandé mask from the region of Tuba in northwest Ivory Coast.
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Fertility Mask
Curious mask, of marked influence Guró, that by its style could belong to the Mblo festive masks, but two important elements place…
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Facial Mask Kidumu
It is a round and flattened mask with two planes separated by a horizontal median line.
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Facial Mask
Related to the senufo, they have such a similar style that they often confuse both creations.
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Nyabwa mask
The Beté masks were tradicionally war masks intended to frighten the enemy and enkindle its fighters, they also appeared to establish peace.
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