Chimpanzee mask "kagle" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3034974

Description

wood, partly encrusted patina, pigment remains, nails, a snout-like protruding open mouth with a thick fleshy tongue below, punched circle ornaments, pierced around the rim, min. dam., missing parts, cracks, traces of abrasion, socle;
important requisites of the mask dancer are bundles of hooked branches, used to annoy the audience. According to the hooked branch “ka” the mask figure is called “kagle”. All “kagle” mask figures have proper names, some are called “klua”, according to the chimpanzee, others bare the name of some animal or certain activities.

Comparing literature

Fischer, Eberhard, Himmelheber, Hans, Die Kunst der Dan, Zürich 1976, p. 112, ill. 84