{"id":35027,"date":"2026-11-03T08:23:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/?page_id=35027"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:23:52","slug":"kuba-masks-bwoom-mwaash-ambooy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/kuba-masks-bwoom-mwaash-ambooy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuba masks: Bwoom, Mwaash a-Mbooy and variations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bwoom, Mwaash a-Mbooy and Mukenge appear in separate catalogue records. This route sets them alongside other masks attributed to the Kuba, allowing their names and photographs to be compared. Original spellings remain in the records, including variants that should not be merged without documentary review.<\/p>\n<p>In MYL-12, Arrimadas pays attention to cowries, beads, raffia and painted decoration. His account directs attention to the relationship between carving and accessories as well as the face. The photographs allow that description to be read as a collection document, without transferring another museum object\u2019s history to these works.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Documented context<\/h2>\n<p>The Cleveland Museum of Art describes Bwoom among the Bushoong as part of a mask triad associated with accounts of the Kuba kingdom\u2019s foundation. It also records non-royal uses outside the capital. Context varies; a shared designation does not guarantee a single function.<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clevelandart.org\/art\/1935.304\" rel=\"noopener\">Cleveland Museum of Art \u00b7 Mask (Bwoom)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Reading the catalogue<\/h2>\n<p class=\"document-attribution\">Original historical document in Spanish<\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"es\">\n<p>Profusamente decorada con cauris, abalorios, abundante barba de rafia y art\u00edstica policrom\u00eda a base de dibujos geom\u00e9tricos.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/coleccion\/royal-mask-bwoom-myl-12\/\">Jes\u00fas Arrimadas Saavedra \u00b7 original catalogue \u00b7 MYL-12<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">This quotation retains the archive\u2019s wording. Editorial context and comparative sources do not certify the objects\u2019 attribution, age or provenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bwoom, Mwaash a-Mbooy and Mukenge appear in separate catalogue records. This route sets them alongside other masks attributed to the Kuba, allowing their names and photographs to be compared. Original spellings remain in the records, including variants that should not be merged without documentary review. In MYL-12, Arrimadas pays attention to cowries, beads, raffia and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35027","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35057,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35027\/revisions\/35057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}