Dan Déanglé mask - Ivory Coast - African Art Tribal Art
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Dan masks, of various designs, are usually performed at highly theatrical entertainment parties where women play a prominent role. The so-called "mocking" mask called Déanglé defines an ideal of beauty and benevolence because it is sculpted in honor of the young girls of the village or famous men. Also used during the rites of circumcision, they appear in company of the singing masks gle sö and the large masks go ge related to the society go, which exercises justice and maintains peace. Generally speaking, the dan masks also have the peculiarity of not being representations of bush spirits, but of being in fact the incarnation of them.
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Dan Déanglé mask - Ivory Coast - African Art Tribal Art
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