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Dan / Wobé Gebande Beggar Mask, CÎte d'Ivoire #138

Dan / Wobé Gebande Beggar Mask, CÎte d'Ivoire #138

  • Dan / WobĂ© Initiation Beggar Mask, CĂŽte d'Ivoire #138
  • WobĂ© des WĂ©, Region of Man, Village of Koua. 
  • Vandenhoute distinguished two large groups of Masks: the Gebande and the Genome. Gebande is the most sacred examples of Dan Masks while Genome is a lower rank of Masks. The classifications relate to the content which the Dan attribute to the Mask, rather than the appearance of the Mask.
  • Gebande Masks can be divided into a series of subgroups and categories:
  • Subgroups:
    - Singers’ Masks
    - Dancers’ Masks
    - Storytellers’ Masks
    - Beggars’ Masks (their primary use is the collection of Offerings for Ancestors)
  • Categories:
    - Gore or Ancestor Masks (the most Sacred of Masks)
    - Gesuya or Avenger Masks (stands up to the Go Master and the Ancestors)
    - Miniature Masks or Passport Masks (substitutes for Goge or Gesuya masks)
    - Zakpai or Sagbwe Masks (Runners’ Mask or Fire Watchers’ Mask)

  • Materials: forest wood with a decoration of cotton fabric, inlaid with cowry shells and bells in bronze.

  • Condition: internal shiny patina of wear presenting a few antiquity cracks. Without break or restoration.

  • Measurements:  34×22×12 cm

  • Custom Base included.

  • Excellent example of a far older fine mask receiving new (at that time period 1960's attachments and Dance-ready freshening of attachments; please notice the canvas chin attachement).
  • Provenance: Collected In Situ during the 1960s, transmitted by Family Descent, then purchased bt the Farafi Gallery.
  • Pieter Jan Vandenhoute in 1938/1939. P. J. Vandenhoute was a pioneer in the investigation of Dan and We (GuĂ©rĂ©) art on the Ivory Coast in the 1930s. He is the author of 'Classification stylistique du masque Dan et GuĂ©rĂ© de la Cote d'Ivoire occidentale', 1948.

 

$975.00
Dan / WobĂ© Gebande Beggar Mask, CĂŽte d'Ivoire #138—
$975.00
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Description

  • Dan / WobĂ© Initiation Beggar Mask, CĂŽte d'Ivoire #138
  • WobĂ© des WĂ©, Region of Man, Village of Koua. 
  • Vandenhoute distinguished two large groups of Masks: the Gebande and the Genome. Gebande is the most sacred examples of Dan Masks while Genome is a lower rank of Masks. The classifications relate to the content which the Dan attribute to the Mask, rather than the appearance of the Mask.
  • Gebande Masks can be divided into a series of subgroups and categories:
  • Subgroups:
    - Singers’ Masks
    - Dancers’ Masks
    - Storytellers’ Masks
    - Beggars’ Masks (their primary use is the collection of Offerings for Ancestors)
  • Categories:
    - Gore or Ancestor Masks (the most Sacred of Masks)
    - Gesuya or Avenger Masks (stands up to the Go Master and the Ancestors)
    - Miniature Masks or Passport Masks (substitutes for Goge or Gesuya masks)
    - Zakpai or Sagbwe Masks (Runners’ Mask or Fire Watchers’ Mask)

  • Materials: forest wood with a decoration of cotton fabric, inlaid with cowry shells and bells in bronze.

  • Condition: internal shiny patina of wear presenting a few antiquity cracks. Without break or restoration.

  • Measurements:  34×22×12 cm

  • Custom Base included.

  • Excellent example of a far older fine mask receiving new (at that time period 1960's attachments and Dance-ready freshening of attachments; please notice the canvas chin attachement).
  • Provenance: Collected In Situ during the 1960s, transmitted by Family Descent, then purchased bt the Farafi Gallery.
  • Pieter Jan Vandenhoute in 1938/1939. P. J. Vandenhoute was a pioneer in the investigation of Dan and We (GuĂ©rĂ©) art on the Ivory Coast in the 1930s. He is the author of 'Classification stylistique du masque Dan et GuĂ©rĂ© de la Cote d'Ivoire occidentale', 1948.

 

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