AFRICAN TRIBAL WAR PAINT FULL

AFRICAN TRIBAL WAR PAINT FULL

Orders are delivered by any carrier designated by the gallery or purchaserВ within 4 working days after the full payment is received corresponding to the counterpart by the seller. You can return unwanted items by post within 15 working days of receipt of your goods. They are ruled by a chief known as bodio who lives in near-total isolation and also assumed the function of the grand priest. Unlike the other people living in Liberia, the Grebo are not structured by the Poro society. Their major economic activity is producing palm oil and palm kernels for export. The culture of the Grebo, a little-known ethnic group inhabiting the coastal region of eastern Liberia and the bordering forestlands, was shaped to a considerable degree by their neighbors to the north, the Kran and Dan. вЂњGreboвЂќ means вЂњleaping monkey people,вЂќ a reference to their flight from a former homeland near the Sahara.

Their style is closely related to Dan, We and other neighboring tribes. The war masks designed primarily to terrify appeared during battles, in the dances beforehand, and at the funerals of warriors.В Figures are rare. The masks appeared during rituals reserved for initiates and at the time of festive occasions when the whole population was able to see them.

The third type is male war masks, more abstract and flat, formed by a board with an elongated nose and one or more pairs of tubular eyes. The second type of masks represents the female ideal with slit eyes and sweetness of expression. One type is characterized by a massive face surmounted by two buffalo horns. The common denominator of Grebo masks is that they were designed to destabilize or intimidate their opponent by the ferocious and hard appearance. Wars and looting, then being commonplace, itsВ craft carries the stigma. It represents an animal head.В This pieceВ has often struggled against his former neighbors (Dan Wei, GuГ©rГ© & Bete). The Grebo ethnic group in Ivory Coast uses this mask to the needs of вЂњfetishвЂќ (sacrifices).

The deep-set face are white (by means of kaolin), the remaining areas dyed a dark brown color. The Bete mask consists of medium-weight wood. The ethnic group Bete is well known especially for this kind of mask, nicknamed Nyabwa. The person wearing the mask is believed to have special magical powers. These masks were worn in preparation for warfare, mainly to instill fear in the enemy. This hand-carved Grebo Mask made of dense wood and black pigmentВ belongs to the Kroo group and is aВ вЂclassicalвЂ™ type of Bete mask.

African tribal war paint