Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Kagba Mask from Côte d'Ivoire
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Image View:
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Overall view from front
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Creator:
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unknown (Ivorian artist)
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Location:
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repository: FABA (Fundación Almine Y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Para El Arte) (Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
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Location Note:
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From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-Face Picasso, Past and Present (2018 exhibition)
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Date:
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20th century (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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African (general, continental cultures); Ivorian
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Style Period:
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Senufo
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Work Type 1:
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ceremonial mask
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Work Type 2:
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sculpture (visual work)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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wood
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Technique:
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carving (processes)
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Measurements:
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124 cm (height) x 19 cm (width) x 19 cm (depth)
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Subjects:
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abstraction; animal; initiation; ceremony; ceremonial; dance
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Description:
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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)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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7A3-AFRICAN-FAFFM-KM-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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