This piece of art was danced and there is no doubt that they paid great tribute to her. The hairstyle is clearly younger than the mask itself – a reliable evidence: so to speak that this mask due to its importnace, has been generally overhauled.
Because of its stylized naturalistic design, the mask expresses effectively pwo, “woman”, rsp. mwana pwo, “girl”, the ideal of female perfectionism . The regular face, the big nearly shut eyes in the round eyeholes, the plain nose with the delicate curved sides of the nose – all these attributes should refer not only to the bodily, but also to a social and morally perfection.
All this has worked exceedingly well with this object. The overall impression or detail – everything is perfect. A master piece of tribal art. |
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