Photographs © Tim Hamill
DOGON
BUFFALO MASK 1
24" high x 17" wide ( 29" high including stand )
$8000
SOLD
provenance: Galerie Khenghavars, Paris
Similar mask being danced in Mali
"For the Dogon, the èmma consists of a person dancing in a costume that includes a headpiece but is not limited to it. Masks are not worn; masks are men who dance, perform, and shout. The total outfit consists of a kind of skirt and arm adornments fashioned from red and black fibers, a pair of very wide Dogon trousers, a headpiece with cotton bands for attachment, and various handheld objects relating to a particular mask, such as a dancing stick, a rattle, or a dancing ax. The headpiece defines the type of mask, but the fibers define the outfit as a mask."
---from Dogon, Africa's People of the Cliffs by Stephenie Hollyman
and Walter E. A. Van Beek. 2001: Harry N Abrams, Inc.
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