Masque "deangle" ·  Côte d'Ivoire, Dan · ID: 3044014

Description

wood, pigments, collection number “L67-19-22”

The “deangle” mask characters belong to the circumcision camps (“mbon”) and they are responsible for food and protection of the initiates.

Each “deangle” has its own name.

One for example was called “The food-palaver spoils our good humor” because it has the habit of snapping up the choiciest morsels of a meal to carry them off to its forest lair.

Another was called “Come and look at me”, for it fancies itself to be so attractive that it causes a sensation.