Mask

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Description

wood, punched metal sheet, five projections with red fringes in the area of nose and temples, collection label “Harry Franklin Marka Mali Lahbe” backside, pierced around the rim, min. dam., slight traces of abrasion, socle;
all along the Niger this mask type is used for ceremonies associated with fishing and agriculture.
The Marka are divided into the Marka, or Soninke Marka, living in Mali, and the Dafing or Dafing-Marka, settling in Burkina Faso. Both groups are cultivating different mask traditions, very similiar to those of the surrounding ethnic groups.

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Comparing literature

Bacquart, Jean-Baptiste, The Tribal Arts of Africa, London 1998, p. 67, ill. c

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