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Description : Additional Information: This well used mask with curved horns has some age and long use obviously indicating significant ritual and symbolic significance for its Fang owners who took great care to repaint the mask over time. , ,This horned type of Fang mask is rare to find. It ,would hold a prominent place in a collection of African Art. , Among the Fang, white-painted masks identified with the Ngil society are known for their elegant abstractions of the human face. , While emphasizing its pure forms, the mask's white color also marks its spiritual identity. , Ngil masks have been described as having a 'heart-shaped face' due to the facial features emphasizing refined curves of the orbital ridges above the eyes and the prominent line of the short tapered nose that ended above a square mouth completing the abstraction of the face. , Ngil masks were worn during initiations and were also known for judicial and social control activities in searching out sorcerers, a process that ultimately led to their being banned by the French colonial authorities in 1910. , , For similar piece see Warren M. Robbins &, Nancy Ingram Nooter, AFRICAN ART IN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS, p.335, fig. 867, , Perrois Louis, Visions of Africa, FANG, 2006, PL. 51, a similar mask from Centre Georges Pompidou. Further Reading.  ,Binet, J. , , Societes de danse chez les Fang, (Paris, 1972) Perrois, L. , , , , , , Sculpture traditionelle du Gabon, (Paris, 1977) Perrois, L. , , , , , , 'Arts du Gabon, Les arts plastiques du Bassin ,  , ,  , ,  , ,  , ,  ,dl'Ogoue', Arts d'Afrique Noire. 1979 Perrois, L. , , , , , , Arts ancestral du Gabon dans les collections du Musee Barbier-Mueller, (Geneva, 1985) Schmalenbach, W. , , , African Art from the Barbier-Mueller Collection, (Geneva,1988) Siroto, L., East of the Atlantic, West of the Congo, Art From Equatorial Africa, The Dwight and Blossom Strong Collection, Kathleen Berrin, Editor. 1995. Tessmann, G. , , Die Pangwe, (Berlin and New York, 1913(1972)
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