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The exorcisers' masks are a unique handicraft in Guizhou Province. Fashioned out of wood and tree roots, they range in imagery from the grotesque to the good and genuine. Such masks can be as small as several centimeters and as large as two metres. The exorcising culture of the Mial villages in Guizhou is regarded as a gem in folk Chinese culture.
Chinese Opera mask
Death Mask Culture: Chinese Provenience: China, Shanxi, Pingding Period: Liao Dynasty Date Made: ca.907-125 Materials: Silver
Maonan Nuo Mask. Huanjiang, Guangxi, SW China. Painted wood & hair. The God of Earth is one of the most popular deities throughout China, and is an important character in the Maonan version of the Nuo Opera. Made by Maonans are farmers who grow millet and buckwheat and have a population of some 107,000, most of whom live in Guangxi Autonomous Region. In 1964, there were 183 ethnic groups registered, among which only 54 are recognized. Assimilation into modern society is being encouraged
Bacchic Mask Bronze Roman, 1st Century AD The ivy wreath is clearly visibly on the head complete with bunches of grapes. His long beard is beautifully rendered, fanning out in twisted corkscrews.
Villa Pisanella Boscoreale Treasure. Roman silver mask. Louvre
A ROMAN BRONZE CAVALRY PARADE HELMET CIRCA LATE 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
Silenus Theater Mask, Roman, bronze, 15 1/4 inches high, circa 1st Century A.D.
The Nine Muses | Roman mosaic found in Kos, 1st century BC, Great Master's Palace, Rhodas
The Nijmegen Helmet is an Ancient Roman helmet, found in a gravel bed on the left bank of Waal river, near the Dutch city of Nijmegen in 1915. The helmet would have been worn by the elite Roman cavalry.[1] The head portion of the helmet is made of iron, while the mask and diadem are of bronze or brass. The helmet has a neck-protecting projecting rim, overlaid with a thin bronze covering plated with silver.[2] The diadem features two male and three female figures."
Black Roman mask
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Funerary shroud of Tasheretwedjahor | Egyptian, Greco-Roman Period, 1st or 2nd century A.D. | As an alternative to a portrait mummy or cartonnage mummy mask, one might opt for a full-length painted shroud like this one inscribed for Tasherytwedjahor. Personal taste, local styles, the availability of artists and materials all factored into the decision.
Gold Burial mask of a King 3rd century AD Pantikapaion necropolis
Bronze parade mask: a woman’s face, perhaps worn by soldiers representing Amazons, 2nd century, Ancient Rome. The British Museum
a cavalry mask of a Roman cavalry helmet, which was once covered with silver
Mulato or Black (c. 100-1 BCE) Bust of a Roman Republican. Politicians
(c. 25-1 BCE) Portrait of a Roman Republican
Portrait of a Man, End of second–beginning of first century BCE, bronze, glass paste, black stone, 32.5 cm
Bronze Portrait of Gaius Norbanus Sorex, a Roman actor 1y
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ery nice and interesting Roman bronze attachment that depicts Pan butting heads with a goat on the handle with a mask of Pan below. The piece is 5 1/2 inches high and is dated circa 1st Century A.D
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African Masks Nigeria, Ogoni peoples, ca. early 20th century CE. This is a small cane wood dance mask. The face has narrow slits for eyes, serious lips, and pronounced ears and nose. There are marks of scarification/tattooing on the forehead and extending out from the mouth. The white face paint marks this mask as an "elu", a spirit. The Ogoni encountered European colonists quite late - 1901 was the year they encountered the British - so their artistic tradition retains many pre-colonial elements compared
The extremely stylized chimpanzee masks are called mwisi gwa so'o a term that alludes to the "spirit-ivested object of the chimpanzee human" that inhabits the mask. The mwisi gwa so'o masqueraders wear a costume of aniumal skin, barkcloth and the hair of Colobis monkeys. Their raucous dances, performed at funeral and memorial services, reflect Hemba ideas about death and social chaos and stand in diametrical opposition to the otherwise ordered world of the living. (from African Masks from the Ba
Congo Mask - African Mask
Africa | Mask from the Pende people of DR Congo | Wood and pigment
Citipati “Lord of the Cemetery” Matched Pair, Tibet or Bhutan,19th/early 20th Century
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Running mask. Zakpai, Ivory Coast, Dan, 20th c. Fabric covered wood, aluminum rings, fiber, teeth inset with pointed animal claws. Private collection, France.
Antique African Wood Carved Mask of Man's Head Sculpture by RambleMarket
West African mask - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Masque, Baulé, Côte d'Ivoire | Lot | Sotheby's - Sculpté en l'honneur d'une personne dont il porte le nom (personnage politique important, danseur ou très belle jeune-fille), le masque-portrait célèbre une image idéale, « qui répond moins à une volonté d'individualisation qu'à un effort de transfiguration » (idem). Considéré par les artistes eux-mêmes comme « le sommet de la sculpture Baulé » (Vogel, 1997, p. 141-142), il en incarne le style fondamental. Ici, le visage idéalisé exalte une beauté
Africa | Mask from the Bete people of Ivory Coast or Liberia | Wood and metal
Africa | Mask from Ibibio people of Eastern Nigeria | Wood and pigment
urhobo mask, nigeria
Africa | Mask from the Kete people of DR Congo | Wood and pigment
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Africa | 'Bandu' janus helmet mask from the Bassa people of Liberia | Wood. H: 43,2 cm | Acquired by Charles D. Miller, III from a Bassa paramount chieftainesse named Esther Jawara, in compound seven, eastern coastal Liberia, 1970s
MASQUE, BAULÉ, CÔTE D'IVOIRE haut. 36 cm 14 1/6 in Estimate 120,000 — 180,000 EUR LOT SOLD. 781,500 EUR
Mena: the African mask and art business is a nice business. An African mask sold for $800,000.
MASQUE, DAN SEPTENTRIONAUX, CÔTE D'IVOIRE NORTHERN DAN MASK, IVORY COAST haut. 47 cm
Dan, Ivory Coast, Liberia: A large beaked mask of the Dan-Mau. The hornbill plays a central rôle in the foundation myths of the Dan. Whereas the northern Dan groups (Kono, Kpelle, Mano etc.) represent this mythical bird in their 'gägon' mask type (with beak, black beard, and textile hat with feathers), the Dan-Mau sub group has developed a different type with long beak (known as 'Koma-ba', without beard!) which guards against witchcraft.
Mali: Bamana Ntomo Mask #AfricanMask #AfricanArt Mask styles vary by region, plus there are masks from the Marka, Malinke and Bozo peoples living in the same area that can be easily mistaken for Bamana.
BAMANA N'TOMO MASK 2, Mali. See too the following site for additional African mask images and information:
Mask from the Dan people of Ivory Coast or Liberia | Wood, fiber, metal | ca. prior to 1976 ”
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Female (Pwo) mask. Chokwe peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo). Late 19th to early 20th century C.E. Wood, fiber, pigment, and metal. Higher resolution photo.
Africian Mask from the Pende Tribe of Democratic Republic of Congo
Rare 3 Face Lega African Mask - Masque - Congo DRC
Africa - Kuba People of Zaire Shene Malula African Mask
I have a huge collection of African masks - and some could use a makeover...
Africa | Mask from the Lega people of DR Congo | Wood, encrusted patina | ca. early 20th century
Sumerian Gypsum Mask ,Midlle of the 3rd Millennium B.C.
Sumerian Face of a Worshipper. This beautifully carved face would have originally belonged to a complete statue carved in composite from different colored stones. Mesopotamian, Circa 2700 B.C.
The Great Flood: the Eridu Genesis. Mask of a Sumerian. Louvre, Paris. Photo Jona Lendering.
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Pharaonic Egypt ended in 656 BC. It's long--3,000 years--was so influential that invaders like the Greeks and Romans couldn't help but adopt ceratin aspects of this ancient African civilization.
Thus funerary and mummy masks post those invasions--including the Syrian one--and those dated from AD times are NOT to be seen as representing the indigenous people of Kmt.
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Lamin I agree most of the mummy masks belonged to the Ancient Greeks and Roman who had invaded Egypt. Many Egyptians before the downfall of Ancient Egypt migrated and settled in South Spain, Etruria in Italy, Southern Greece, Palestine and Mesopotamia.
theancientwayoflife: “~Mask of a young male. Culture: Egyptian Period: Early Roman Imperial Period Date: 30 B.C.–about A.D. 50 ”
Mummy Mask of a Man with Traces of a Striped Headcloth Plaster with glass-inlaid eyes Mid-1st century CE Egypt
Egyptian Painted Plaster Funerary Mask of a Man - X.0177 Origin: Egypt Circa: 1 st Century AD to 2 nd Century AD Dimensions: 9.625" (24.4cm) high Collection: Egyptian Style: Roman Period Medium: Plaster, Glass
Funerary mask for a woman, painted plaster, date given as mid-1st century AD, Egyptian. Museum of Fine Arts Boston accession no. 54.638
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