Masking Traditions: h onoring our mothers - PowerPoint Presentation

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Masking

Traditions:

h

onoring our mothers

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The Religious Landscape

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Igbo Mbari House to Ala, the Earth Goddess, Adobe and wood, 20

th

century

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Verandah Posts,

Olowe

,

Wood,

Yoruba,

1910-1914

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Nkisi Nkonde,

Kongo Peoples, Zaire

Wood, cord, iron, nails, feathers, pigment

Natural fibers

20th century h. 83 cm

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Divination Tapper--

Iroke

Ifa

Ivory,

Owo

, Yoruba, Nigeria

17

th

-18

th

century

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Ifa

divination Tray—

Opon

Ifa

,

Fon

Peoples, Republic of Benin,

Wood, Late 16

th

- Early 17

th

century

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The mask is …

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Figure with Mask like Head,

Rock Painting, Tassili, 10,000 BP

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African Art and the Modernist Engagement

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Pablo Picasso,

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Oil on canvas, 1907

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“the mask weren’t just like any pieces of sculpture…Not at all.

They were magic things…The Negro pieces were

intercesseurs

, mediators…

I always looked at fetishes

...”

--

Pablo Picasso

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Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselle

D’Avignon

(detail) 1907, oil on canvas

Mbuya (sickness) mask,

Pende, Zaire, Polychrome wood,

20

th

century

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Fang Mask,

Gabon, polychrome wood,

20

th

century

Mask,

Republic of the Congo,

Painted wood

Late 19

th

century

Pablo Picasso,

Detail of Les Demoiselle

D’Avignon, 1907,

Oil on canvas

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The mask is the mediating force at that delicate intersection

between the real and the imagined; the concrete and the imperceptible;

The serious and the playful; the whimsical and the terrifying; the living and the dead

Ancestral veneration/worship; mediation

Rites of passage—education

Social control—punitive; intervention; social harmony

Entertainment—humor and satire

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Ancestor Veneration

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Oba William Ayeni,

Orangun of Ila wearing the

Great Crown (Ade Nla) with beaded

Veil,

Yoruba Peoples, Nigeria

20

th

cent

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Chiwara Masquerades in performance during the agricultural cycle,

Bamana Peoples, Mali

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Crest Mask,

Chiwara,

Bamana, Mali

Wood,

20

th

century

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Bobo (Butterfly) mask,

Burkina Faso (Upper Volta),

Painted Wood, cloth,

20

th

century

Members of the Do in performance

Dossi, Burkina Faso (Upper Volta)

Wood, natural pigments, grass fibers

20

th

century

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Dje (antelope) masquerade in performance, Dabuzra, Cote D’Ivoire

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Rites of Passage

:

Initiation & Education

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Sowei Headdress,

Gola/Vai Peoples,

Liberia and Sierra Leone,

Wood, 20

th

century

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Sowei Headdress,

Sande society, (Gola, Vai Peoples)

Liberia Sierra Leone

Wood, pigment

20

th

century

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Boys’ initiation, Gabon

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Fire spitter mask (kponugu), Senufo, Ivory Coast

Wood, 20

th

century

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Social Control

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Gelede Headdress with two pythons attempting to swallow a tortoise

Yoruba, Nigeria, wood, pigment, 20

th

century

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Ijele Mask at the 2

nd

Burial

Ceremony,

Achalla, Nigeria,

Mixed media, 20

th

century

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Yoruba Egungun Masquerade, mixed media, 21

st

century

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Egungun ensemble

Yoruba Peoples, Nigeria

Cloth, wood, metal

20

th

cent.

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Egungun masquerade in

Dance motion

Yoruba Peoples, Nigeria/Benin,

20

th

cent.

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Humor and Satire

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Gelede masked performers, Yoruba Peoples, Ketu, Democratic republic of Benin

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Masquerades, Yoruba, Nigeria, wood, cotton, 20

th

century

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Parodying the Colonial “Other”

(Egungun) Masquerade

Yoruba, Nigeria

wood, animal hide, cotton, pigments

20

th

century

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Diasporic

Transformations

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Egungun

ensemble honoring Sango,

Oyotunji

, Sheldon, South Carolina,

May

26, 2014. Photograph by

Bolaji

Campbell.

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Nick Cave

American, b. 1956

Soundsuit, 2006

Found knit sweaters, socks, drift wood, dryer lint, and paint  

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund  2007.11

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Wole

Lagunju

Marilyn Monroe and my African

Sensibilities

Acrylic on canvas

2013