African Masks - Kota Mask. Kota figures are carved in wood and covered with sheets of brass or copper to increase their power.

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Jan 12, 2016 · The Kota once used reliquary guardian figures (called mbulu ngulu) to protect the revered bones of family ancestors. The bones were preserved in containers made of bark or basketry.

This vintage Kota mask comes from the Bakota Tribe in Gabon and was used to communicate with the Ancestors. When the chief of the tribe passes away part of the ritual is to decorate his body with brass, copper and other metals.

Accompanying the satsi circumcision rites in the Ivindo Valley, this type of African mask with curved walls was used to entertain or impress by begging for donations for the young people invited to the ceremonies. The wearer's costume was made of raffia fibers.

May 16, 2015 · Kota figures represent an extremely stylized human body, reduced to shoulders and “arms,” in emptied lozenge shape, surmounted by a large face framed by an ample coiffure with hanging tresses.

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African mask of the Mahongwe type, whose narrow concave face ending in a point and long protruding eyelids could have been one of the sources of inspiration for Cubism.

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This mask, collected between 1905 and 1909 by Tessman, now in the Ethnographic Museum, Lübeck, shares the plank-like facial plane, the small, oval, protruding mouth, and a straight nose which then