Zamblé Gouro large mask - Ivory Coast - African Art
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This mask produced in the northern region of the Gouro country of Côte d'Ivoire is topped with antelope horns, ram, and a stylized hornbill figure. It is worn during commemorative festivals. Among the Mande group in the south, in the center of Côte d'Ivoire, on the banks of the Bandama, the Gouro are organized in lineages, and constitute the western neighbors of the Baoulé who have borrowed several characteristics from their African tribal art creations. As early as 1906 the French colonists changed their name from "Kwéni" to "Gouro". Animists, they use since the 50s a family of masks associated with the Zaouli dance. Indeed, like the African Goli masks of the Baule, the Guro masks, related to the genies of nature, are declined in two zoomorphic masks followed by a third anthropomorphic one, which is considered as the wife of the zamblé mask, the Gu. Lacquered polychrome patina, minimal chips.
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Zamblé Gouro large mask - Ivory Coast - African Art
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