- The term
Kifwebe (sometimes
referred to as Bifwebe),
meaning mask,
refers to the
traditional masks worn by the
Songye and Luba
peoples of the Congo. They...
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types of
kifwebe masks. The
kifwebe masks come in
various designs and
reference different aspects of nature,
culture and cosmology.
Kifwebe masks symbolized...
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surface Female kifwebe mask; late 19th or
early 20th century; 30.5 x 18.1 x 15.6 cm (12 x 71⁄8 x 61⁄8 in.);
Brooklyn Museum. The
kifwebe masquerade is...
- century; wood; 20.6 × 5.4 × 4.8 cm (81⁄8 × 21⁄8 × 17⁄8 in);
Brooklyn Museum Kifwebe mask; wood;
Royal Museum for
Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) Anthropomorphic...
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crocodile teeth, and
warthog fangs.
Another well-known
example is that of
kifwebe masks of the
Songye people (Congo Basin), that mix the
stripes of a zebra...
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Throne created by a
Bansoa artist in the
Bamileke kingdom, a
Female Mask (
Kifwebe) by
Songye artists, and a
shrine figure carved by a Baga artist. The museum...
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galleries through her
fellowship in Paris. In Les Fétiches,
masks from
Songye Kifwebe and Guru Dan are visible. In 1941,
Jones entered her
painting Indian Shops...
