Kwele Ekuk Bata Mask, Gabon #142 monarch butterfly used as tribal or family

used as tribal or family fetish representing the spirit of fecundity and generative power

: Peintures sur Ecorce Battue des Mbuti (Haut-Zaire): (French Edition)

pointed chin and are crafted from wood

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art

the ‘Great Strength’ (9 wands) and the ‘Oppression’ (10 wands) and Buddha learned to live with that

Kwele Ekuk Bata Mask, Gabon #142 monarch butterfly used as tribal or familyKwele Ekuk Bata Mask for Beete Ceremonies, Gabon #142 Known as "Ekuk" or "Things of the Forest" this genre of Mask act as Intermediaries between the Forest and the Village. Additionally, the gentle curving horns of the "Bata" mask are understood to be a metaphor for the Cosmic Unification of those two Realms. Though their dance is characterized as Human, "Ekuk" have fantastical attributes: trunks, beaks, or horns. Often painted white, a color the