Zoomorphic mask "zamble" - Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
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Together with "gu" (his beautiful wife) and "zauli" (his wild grotesque brother), "zamble" forms a sequence of three sacred masks. They are considered helper or tutelary spirits for the whole village where they are settled and regularly received offerings.
Zamble" has to perform when someone important from the clan had died, or if an affair of the village or an important family has to be given particular emphasis.
H: 40 cm, H: 15,7 inch
Provenance:
Constance McCormick Fearing Collection, Montecito / Santa Barbara, USA
Lit.: Fischer, Eberhard, Guro, Masks, Munich, Berlin, London, New York 2008, p. 168
Continent: Africa
Together with "gu" (his beautiful wife) and "zauli" (his wild grotesque brother), "zamble" forms a sequence of three sacred masks. They are considered helper or tutelary spirits for the whole village where they are settled and regularly received offerings.
Zamble" has to perform when someone important from the clan had died, or if an affair of the village or an important family has to be given particular emphasis.
H: 40 cm, H: 15,7 inch
Provenance:
Constance McCormick Fearing Collection, Montecito / Santa Barbara, USA
Lit.: Fischer, Eberhard, Guro, Masks, Munich, Berlin, London, New York 2008, p. 168
Continent: Africa
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Zoomorphic mask "zamble" - Côte d'Ivoire, Guro
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