BWA PLANK MASKS, Burkina Faso

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BWA
Plank Mask 3
63"
$600

The masks below are all SOLD and are left here for reference and educational purposes.

 

BWA
Plank Mask 2
SOLD

 

BWA
Plank Mask 4
SOLD

 

BWA
Plank Mask 5
SOLD

 

BWA
Plank Mask 6
SOLD

 

BWA
Plank Mask 7
SOLD

 

BWA
Plank Mask 8
SOLD

Photographs © Tim Hamill

Masks like these tall headdresses transformed the dancer into a supernatural being. They were used by the Do society at dances to promote fertility of the fields and at funerals of Do members. The geometric designs all have meanings. The checkerboard pattern symbolizes the separation of light from dark, good from evil, and female from male.

Some of these masks show no evidence of age or use and were probably made to be sold.

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