African Art wall art A special BIG Ghana African mask handcrafted from real African buy wood with NO stand in full wall hanging 174

Don't forget to provide us with your phone number for the shipping company in order to avoid losing the package Don't forget to provide us with your phone number for the shipping company in order to avoid losing the package african art The masks " of disease" Pende Mbangu (deformed mouth) or Bwala-Bwala against, illustrate, by their
outraged features, the patient in an epileptic seizure or the result of a facial paralysis caused by witchcraft
rituals. The dancer wearing this comedy mask is wearing a feather hat gifuatu guinea fowl, coucal or
touraco, or lumbandu, a crown of leaves. It is also often equipped with a bump on the back, exaggerating
the handicapped aspect of the character.
This mask of the Pende established buy in the upper Kwango is distinguished by its bent nose and tubular
mouth, and the contrasting colored lozenges, applied on a dark, matte background, accentuate the visual
effect. The hairstyle divided into three resembles that of some Kuba masks. Abrasions. Damaged internal
contours.
The Western Pende live on the banks of the Kwilu, while the Easterners have settled on the banks of the
Kasai river downstream of Tshikapa. The influences of the neighbouring ethnic groups, Mbla, Suku, Wongo,
Leele, Kuba and Salempasu, were imprinted on their large tribal art sculpture. Within this diversity the
Mbuya, realistic, produced every ten years, have a festive function, and embody different characters
difficult to differentiate without their costume, including the head fumu or ufumu, the soothsayer and his
wife, the prostitute, the buffoon, tundu, the possessed, etc. (Art and Life in Africa, C.D. Roy; "Pende"
Strother)


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