Masque d'antilope "walu" ·  Mali, Dogon · ID: 3051837

Description

wood, pigments, base

The mask appears during the “dama” funeral celebrations, which take place every five years and feature up to 400 masks.

Her dance is meant to commemorate an occurrence in the mythology of the Dogon, in which the creator God “amma” entrusts the antelope “walu” to protect the sun from the access of the fox “yurugu”.

Littérature comparée

Bilot, Alain, Masques du pays Dogon, Paris 2001, p. 75, ill. 14