GothamGallery Fine African Art - Ivory Coast Baule Tribal Mask T

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Fine African West Coast Baule Tribal Mask

Inches: Height: 14.25 Inches
Centimeters: Height: 36.5 Centimeters
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Material: Wood, Pigment
Estimated Age: Early 20th Century
Condition: Good
Remarks: Beautiful Baule art fine carving delicate features elaborate coiffure aged surface
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CONDITION
Wood deterioration, chips and scrapes, age cracks, worn areas, overall condition good. Thank you and please view my other items.BACKGROUND
The Baule represent one of the most important tribes of the West Coast. Their name is testimony to their birth – according to legend, Queen Aba Pokou led her people on an exodus towards the gold mining areas during the 18th Century and had to cross a river where she was obliged to sacrifice her son to the river god, thus giving her people the name Bauli, “the son is dead” During the 19th Century, the queendom disintegrated due to internal conflicts and by the beginning of the 20th century, when the French colonials arrived, they found only a network of villages, headed by councils of venerated men. The Baule people use three types of masks: The first is a helmet mask in the shape of a buffalo head, Bonu Amwin; the second represents a human face with rounded, fairly realistic features; and the third type includes masks related to the Goli festival. This mask here belong to the second type and is characterized by a rounded face with realistic features, pointed chin, T-shaped nose, semi-circular eyes, raised scarification and an elaborate coiffure. They do not appear to have any sacred function and are worn only during festivities related to visits by important dignitaries. This type of mask sometimes has two faces, side by side, symbolizing twins, which for Africans is a good omen.
Painter Fred Uhlman words - Most of the artists I admired, Picasso, Modigliani, Deraini, to mention only a few, had collected African art and had been profoundlyinfluenced by it. Shortly afterwards I bought the Baule Fetish and the Baule bobbin which are still two of the finest pieces in my collection. It is easy to seewhy I bought them and why from that moment I have never stopped collecting. The head of the bobbin or heddle - pulley which is after all only a functionalobject for the purpose of weaving seemed to me then and today as beautiful as a Greek goddess. The fetish moved me as deeply as the bobbin by its silenttragic dignity and its air of profound meditation. GUARANTEE
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