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Description : of hollowed helmet-like form with four abstract faces of varying sizes encircling the perimeter, each with a flat facial plane, and linear nose leading to an incised medial ridge and prominent arching brows, the two largest with eyes pierced through for viewing and each decorated with repeating dot motif beneath a raised cruciform element at the crown and pierced for the attachment of a fiber headdress, dark brown patina with kaolin on the faces. height 15in. (38.1cm.) Cf. Kan and Sieber, African Masterworks in the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1995:49 for a helmet mask formerly in the collection of Helena Rubinstein and Laburthe-Tolra, Fang, 1991:89 for another formerly in the collection of Charles Ratton. The ngon-tang white-faced helmet masks personify young white women upon their return from the land of the dead beyond the sea. The Fang believe that the color white denotes death and, consequently, ancestral spirits. These helmet masks were worn at solemn community gatherings relating to birth, mourning or important village counsels. In general, in African art, multi-faced masks suggest heightened vision and the ability to see beyond this world into the next. The Fang themselves have many interpretations for the multi-faced mask, including `masks with four faces enumerate the four stages of human existence, four faces from a single point recreate the paradigm of family unity, or the faces may be viewed as the four gods in the Fang pantheon (Kan and Sieber, 1995:113).'.
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