Senufo blacksmith mask Kôriyë'ë
A fine old Kpele bronze mask made with the traditional lost wax
technique.
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Height: 33 cm
In dialectics of gender in Senufo Masquerade, Anita Glaze explains
that this type of blacksmith mask is used during the Kôriyë'ë maskerade and
shows the aspect of the beautiful that the Senufo call nayiliwe ("youthfill")
fresh, vigorous, seductively attractive to the eye. This type of mask is
opposed to the dangerous Kunugba'a helmet masquerade of the Senufo senior
grade.
And that these masks are used in combination with textiles in the red,
orange, and bright yellow accents, with energetic music and dance style, to not
also show feminity, but simultaneaously express male-associated qualitis of the
strong, young Poro initiate.
More recent of these masks are cast in Aluminium or brass like on the images
below taken in 1984
As you can see in the above image, this mask is made in bronze using the lost
wax technique. When you see more recent masks they usually are made from a
cupper plate.
Also very nice detail is the Calao bird on the top.
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Senufo Bronze mask
Height: 33 cm
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Bibliography:
Anita
Glaze, ‘Dialectics of Gender: Senufo Masquerades’, African
Arts 19 (
1986), pp. 30–39, 82.
Art
and Death in a Senufo Village
Anita J. Glaze
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