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Butende's Bembe/Goma mask - DRC Congo - African Art

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Butende's Bembe/Goma mask - DRC Congo - African Art

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Title: Butende's Bembe/Goma mask - DRC Congo - African Art Tribal Art

Description: This African tribal mask of the Bembe, associated with the initiation and circumcision rituals of the Butende, has large concave orbits accompanied by the traditional beard. The barn owl would have inspired these zoomorphic characters. The Bembe ethnic group is a branch of the Luba who left the Congo in the 18th century to settle near Tanzania and Burundi. Their society and artistic tendencies are marked by the influence of their neighboring ethnic groups in the Lake Tanganyika region, the Lega, the Buyu, etc. Indeed, like the Lega, the Bembe had a Bwami association responsible for initiation and structuring society, but if the Bwami was exclusive among the Lega, other "bukabo" or "buhabo" associations coexisted among the Bembe, such as the Elanda and Alunga societies. Within the Bwami, art objects such as masks and statues had the role of helping aspirants to the highest rank, Kindi, to remember the moral rules that they had to know and apply.

Type: Mask

Date/Period: Second half 20th century

Origin: DRC, Congo

Materials: Wood

Dimensions:16,93 Inch

Weight: 1,98 Pounds

Reserve: $148.00

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