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New: the 2nd edition of Within Carved Lines: The Secret Meanings of African Masks is out now. Get the book → Several traditions documented in this book carve figures whose missing anatomy is the whole point, but the Dengese take the idea somewhere unusually literal. North of the Kuba kingdom in the Democratic Republic of…
New: the 2nd edition of Within Carved Lines: The Secret Meanings of African Masks is out now. Get the book → Nearly every masking tradition documented in this book answers to ancestors, nature spirits, or the authority of a chief. The Ligbi, an Islamized trading and artisan people who moved from western Ghana into northern…
Scarification and tattooing look similar to outsiders but come from different roots. See how African cultures read the two traditions differently.
New: the 2nd edition of Within Carved Lines: The Secret Meanings of African Masks is out now. Get the book → Most masks are built to move an audience through performance, through dance, through song. The most feared Suku mask was built to do the opposite. Kakuungu was not supposed to dance at all. Its…
New: the 2nd edition of Within Carved Lines: The Secret Meanings of African Masks is out now. Get the book → Nearly every people documented in this book’s Liberian section organizes at least part of village authority through the Poro society, the region’s dominant men’s institution. The Grebo, a little-known ethnic group of eastern Liberia’s…
New: the 2nd edition of Within Carved Lines: The Secret Meanings of African Masks is out now. Get the book → Most African helmet masks are carved, painted, and left as wood. Ejagham carvers, working in the Cross River region straddling southeastern Nigeria and Cameroon, took an additional and genuinely unusual step: they stretched real…