Adone
Antelope dance mask from the Kurumba people of Upper Volta - Burkina Faso
painted wood
height : 1m 26 cm
Information ref nr: Kurumba mask 03.00.03.06
Provenance: ex-coll. Breughelmans Antwerpen.
The
Kurumba call themselves Nioniosi and are grouped into several clans: the
Sawadougou, the Oueremi, the Zale, the Tao and others.
Their
cultural masks are designed to establish a relationship between the elements of
the myths and the cyclical event of funeral or agrarian rituals. Their
sculptural antelope helmet masks- the adone are mostly shown at the
ceremonies marking the end of mourning for a "land chief."
The spirit
of the deceased is captured by the adone and temporarily placed into the
seat of the altar.
The
carvers and wearers of the mask come exclusively from the Sawadougou clans who
are said to be the direct descendants of the founder of the Nioniosi society (Paudrat
in Huet 1978, p. 102).
Bibliography:
Picture
Author: Michel Huet
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Provenance: ex-coll. Breughelmans Antwerpen.
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Author: Michel Huet
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