African mask Traditional vintage art tribal Baule Mask-7450

40.2/19.7 CM
African Antique mask Among the group of Mande from the south, in the center of Côte d'Ivoire, on the mask of the Bandama, the Gouro are organized into lineages,and constitute the western neighbors of the Baoulé who have borrowed several characteristics from their creations. Animists, they have used since the 1950s a family of African Antique mask associated with the Zaouli dance. Indeed like the African Goli African Antique mask of the Baoulé, the set of Guro African Antique mask ,relating to the geniuses of nature, comes in two zoomorphic African Antique mask followed by a third anthropomorphic one, which is considered the wife of the zamblé African Antique mask , the Gu. The Gu,or Lu, whose function is apotropaic,represents a young woman endowed with the criteria of beauty peculiar to the Guro, in particular the facial scarifications and filed teeth. It is while singing in honor of the zamblé that the Gu moves gracefully,