Figures like this are made by the Bamana for use by young male initiates in the Jo society. They are called nyeleni, and are carried from village to village by the initiates to show off their newly-achieved status. Because blacksmiths are most...
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Members of the men¹s kore society, the most senior of six Bambara dyo or initiation societies, wear animal masks with a simple cloth costume, consisting of little more than the owner¹s own clothes. The kore masks appear each year at the end...
The Suku use a variety of mask types in rituals at the young men¹s initiation camp, called nkanda. Large masks like this one are worn by the adult leader and charm specialist (kisidika); smaller masks (kholuka) are worn by the initiates...
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The Baga call these figures bansonyi, and use them to entrap and destroy sorcerers, cure sterility, end droughts, and protect their villages from malevolent forces. Their primary role, however, is to preside over the initiation camp of the simo ...
There are still some questions about the ethnic origin of this unusual mask. It was originally identified as Holo, but recently two scholars who are familiar with the Kwango/Kwilu area havestated emphatically that it could not be Holo (Bourgeois...
"The Twenty-Sixth Annual Festival of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa presents as one of its major features the exhibition of drawings ... Wallace J. Tomasini, Curator of the Exhibition"--P. 3, 5.
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.