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Igbo Maiden Mask with Bird Finial, Nigeria #699

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Igbo Maiden Mask with Bird Finial, Nigeria #699Igbo Maiden Mask with Bird Finial, Nigeria #699 A large carved wooden 3 4 helmet mask with classic facial features and large stylized bird effigy as top finial. The mask has raised scar designs and has been painted with kaolin clay pigments. Early 20th C. Carved wood, pigment, cloth Agbogho Mmwo, or "Maiden Spirit" Masks are danced by men at Festivals that honor important Deities. The Maiden Masks represent the Igbo Ideal of Female Beauty: small,

  • Igbo Maiden Mask with Bird Finial, Nigeria #699
  • A large carved wooden 3/4 helmet mask with classic facial features and large stylized bird effigy as top finial. The mask has raised scar designs and has been painted with kaolin clay pigments.
  • Early 20th C. Carved wood, pigment, cloth
    Agbogho Mmwo, or "Maiden Spirit" Masks are danced by men at Festivals that honor important Deities. The Maiden Masks represent the Igbo Ideal of Female Beauty: small, balanced features, elaborate hairstyles, and delicate tattoos.
    The Maiden Mask would have been used in performance by the male dancers to evoke a Woman that was the Embodiment of the "Feminine Ideal". Masks representing Women or Honoring Women's Powers performed by men was a means for a Community to negotiate Female Gender Roles.
  • The men who dance Agbogho Mmwo Masks wear colorful, tight-fitting fiber costumes, entertaining the Village with exaggerated versions of Women's Dances.
    Igbo Maiden Masks are a visible manifestation of the Spirits of Departed Ancestors who periodically revisit the Human Community for Remembrance, Celebration, and Blessings.
  • Kaolin taken from local Riverbeds (which are associated with Healing and with a Spiritual, Ancestral Realm of Existence) was applied to the facial surface of the Mask.
  • By using this Kaolin Clay Material/ Pigment, the Artist both celebrated the Beauty of Mortal Women a transformed into an Otherworldly, Sublime, Supernatural Being.
  • Igbo peoples, Nigeria, Africa.
  • Measurements: 16 x 11 inches
  • Condition: Good, well handled and worn
  • Provenance: Estate of Distinguished Professor Philip Gould, NYC. Professor of Art History at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College, Professor Philip Gould was a passionate collector of African Art, and curated numerous museum and gallery exhibitions.
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