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Mbuya Mask

Early 20th century
20th C.
Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bandundu Province
8-3/4 x 6-1/2 x 4-1/4 in. (22.2 x 16.5 x 10.8 cm.)

By (primary)
Artist unknown

Culture/People: Pende peoples

Medium: Wood, red camwood and kaolin powder, raffia cloth and fiber, and wicker

Credit Line: Gift of Deborah S. Port and Michael A. Heymann

Accession Number: 2009.70

Currently On View

Provenance

Marc Felix, Brussels, Belgium (FX000328), 2000; Deborah S. Port and Michael Heymann, Carmel, CA

Bibliography

de Sousberghe, Leon. 1958. L'art Pende. Gembloux: Editions J. Duculot.

Felix, Marc. 1987. 100 Peoples of Zaire and their Sculpture. Brussels: Zaire Basin Art History Research Foundation.

Hunt, Marilyn. "Art of the Congo River Basic," African Arts, 17(1), Nov. p. 80.

Olbrechts, Frans. 1959. Les arts plastiques du Congo belge. Brussels: Editions Erasme.

Strother, Zoe S. 1998. Inventing Masks: Agency and History in the art of the Central Pende. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

van den Obssche. 1950. "La sculpture de masques Bapende," Brusse 1.

van Gennep, Arnold. 1969. The Rites of Passage. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

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female
Referring to the sex that normally produces eggs or female germ cells. RHDEL2 [January 1991 descriptor added.]

mourning
The feeling or expression of grief or sorrow; also, the period of ritual observance accompanying a death. [May 1994 related term deleted, was "memory quilts"; related term deleted, was "mourning quilts". February 1993 descriptor added.]

Pende

Congolese (Democratic Republic of Congo style)

mothers

initiations
Ceremonies formally admitting someone into a community, organization, or other group, or investing them with a particular role or status. [January 1996 lead-in terms added. September 1993 scope note added; lead-in terms added; descriptor moved; related terms added. May 1991 alternate term added.]

deaths

masks (costume)
Coverings for all or part of the face, usually with openings for the eyes and sometimes the mouth; worn to hide or alter the identity of the wearer or for protection.

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