Ndoma mask | Mask for Mblo Masquerades (1)

Mask for Mblo Masquerades (2)

Attribution: Museum-publishedProvenance: Museum accession

Attribution follows a published museum catalogue or peer-reviewed scholarship. Object is held in a public collection under a published accession number.

Mask for Mblo Masquerades (2), Igbo — front view
Front · Brooklyn Museum · CC BY 3.0 — via Wikimedia Commons
Mask for Mblo Masquerades
Additional view · Unknown authorUnknown author · CC BY 3.0 — via Wikimedia Commons

At a wide range of Baule festivals and celebrations, masks are danced and performed to entertain. This mask’s delicate, symmetrical features, ornate hairstyle, and smooth surface all create an image of calm and grace. The mask is meant to exemplify an ideal of personal beauty and composure.

Catalogued by Brooklyn Museum as “Mask for Mblo Masquerades (2)”. Harvested from the museum’s open-access record; every field below is copied from that record and none of it has been inferred.

Record

People / cultureBaule
CountryCôte d'Ivoire
Common nameMask for Mblo Masquerades (2)
Form categoryFace mask

Provenance

CollectionBrooklyn Museum
Accession number1989.51.25

Source

Brooklyn Museum, Mask for Mblo Masquerades (2), accession 1989.51.25. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/FileBrooklyn_Museum_1989.51.25_Mask_for_Mblo_Masquerades_2.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ABrooklyn_Museum_1989.51.25_Mask_for_Mblo_Masquerades_%282%29.jpg

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