Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Kagba Mask from Côte d'Ivoire
Image View:
Overall view from front
Creator:
unknown (Ivorian artist)
Location:
repository: FABA (Fundación Almine Y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Para El Arte) (Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
Location Note:
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
Date:
20th century (creation)
Cultural Context:
African (general, continental cultures); Ivorian
Style Period:
Senufo
Work Type 1:
ceremonial mask
Work Type 2:
sculpture (visual work)
Classification:
Sculpture and Installations
Material:
wood
Technique:
carving (processes)
Measurements:
124 cm (height) x 19 cm (width) x 19 cm (depth)
Subjects:
abstraction; animal; initiation; ceremony; ceremonial; dance
Description:
The most important mask among the Nafara, a southern Senufo group, is the kagba, worn with a costume consisting of a tent like structure of reeds and covered with ornamentally painted mats of blankets and danced by a single performer. The mask is a carved head with various animal features; long antelope horns, a gaping mouth studded with teeth, and backward-curving tusks. Older examples of the kagba, made in the 1950's prior to the iconoclastic ravages of the Massa religious movement, are marked by a strikingly simple composition. More recent versions, in contrast, show great elaboration, being ornamented with figurative and symbolic elements and brightly painted. (Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art [website]; http://www.metmuseum .org)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A3-AFRICAN-FAFFM-KM -A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Kagba Mask from Côte d'Ivoire