Rare masque casque "degele" · Côte d'Ivoire, Sénoufo, "Second Master of Lataha", Korhogo Region, Village Lataha · ID: 3044730
Mark Eglinton, New York, USA
Description
wood, rep./ partly renewed
The mask type was first discovered in 1939 in a village near Korhogo.
It only appears in pairs and comes out for the “Great Funeral” - “kuumo”, an all-community festival to commemorate the important elders who have died over a four- or five-year period.
The masquerade couple and their escorts encircle the entire village, a fusion of image and act that symbolizes the continuity between the living and the multiple ancestral dead, and honors those village men and women recently “initiated” into the realm of the dead.
Littérature comparée
Schmalenbach, Werner (Hg.), Afrikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Barbier-Mueller, Genf, München 1988, p. 84
Publications
AHDRC: 0072765