Mask (Emangungu)
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Mask (Emangungu) (possibly early 1900s). Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund Rights: CC0. https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.116

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Rare anthropo-zoomorphic plank masks were once used by Bembe people in circumcision rites called butende . Recently initiated boys living in seclusion in the forest wore them with a bark-and-banana-leaf costume, disguising themselves to beg for food in the village. The sculpture’s short projections above the forehead are identified as an owl’s tufts. The two pairs of eyes could refer to divination. The rites associated with this mask had waned by the mid-1960s.

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A weathered wooden mask depicting two large, oval eyes and intricate geometric patterns, characteristic of West African tribal art.

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