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Material: Animal Skin
Kuba Bwoom Mask
Located in Austin, TX
Residing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Kuba people are true artisans whose craftsmanship fueled traditional rituals, performances, and storytelling. Natural materials, in this case cowrie shells, hold a long history of use in African art often associated with beauty and spirituality. The Bwoom mask...
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Mid-20th Century Congolese Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Copper
Wall Sculpture Wooden Frame Adorned Mosaic Leather Liquid Metal Artglass Backlit
By sicis
Located in London, GB
Wall sculpture with circular wooden frame, adorned with elements in lacquered wood, leather, glass mosaic, art glass and liquid metal.
Backlighting system with sensor.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Metal
Signed Monumental Folk Art Rouge Taxidermy Headdress Mask
Located in Forney, TX
A magnificent American folk art headdress mask by P.J. Stover, signed, titled "Visions", circa 2008. Remarkably executed, the eclectic, sculptural mixed media wall hanging display is...
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Early 2000s American Native American Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Antler, Fur, Leather, Beads, Feathers
Kuba Mask African Bwoom Tribal Congo in Wood, Vibrates Vegetables, Animal Hair
Located in Milano, IT
The African Kuba Bwoom tribal mask is the oldest known mask, the Kuba bwoom mask. The materials used for the realization of the Mask are: Wood, colors and vibrates plants, caures, beads, animal hair. In dance it expresses exuberance and joy. The style is similar to that of the middle Kasai. This mask is a helmet with animal hair, carved with a very wide forehead and hollow cheeks that are announced by motifs or dashes and beads. The mouth of the mask is very pronounced carved in wood and then applied on the mask. To distinguish the forehead in different areas are used black and white beads to draw attention to other aspects of the face such as the nose and chin. The entire edge of the chin is surrounded by beads of various colors. The person wearing the mask cannot look because there are no holes for the eyes present; the mask must create the feeling of being blind. Some masks similar to the bwoom mask include the funny mask, the ram mask and initiation masks such as Nnup.
The real Kuba masks...
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1620s Congolese Tribal Antique Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Animal Skin, Organic Material, Wood
Bidjogo Tribal Initiation Ox Mask, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
After oxen were introduced to Guinea Bissau by Portuguese sailors in the 15th century, its strength, aggression, and nobility quickly became integrated i...
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Early 20th Century Guinea-Bissauan Tribal Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Hide, Wood
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100 FEARS, Seminara Ceramic Mask
Located in Paris, FR
The traditional masks of the Calabrian town of Seminara are intended to chase away evil from the home, dispel fears and gossip with their exaggerated and grotesque features. The mask...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Ceramic
TA RA TA TA, Seminara Ceramic Mask
Located in Paris, FR
The apotropaic (warding off evil) mask from Seminara can be distinguished by its horns, wide eyes, mustache, and screaming mouth with its tongue sticking out. The masks are finished in enormous wood fired kilns, which adds an uncontrollable twist to the features and colors rendered by the artisan’s hands—the final touch in their fierce and imperfect beauty. The demonic aspect of this mask is manifested in order to be expelled, bringing serenity to the owner and ridding the home of negative energy. Giovanni De Francesco takes an idiosyncratic approach to the traditional mask, aiming not for verisimilitude but for a rough impression of the volumes of the face. Using sculptural gestures to shape the clay, he accentuates the fundamental geometry and makes the shapes more grotesque.
Incense can also be placed within TA RA TA TA’s ceramic jaws for ritual burning. This function alludes to a specific variation of the typical mask in in the form of a chimneypot: with smoke pouring out of its mouth and eyes, the mask would appear much more ferocious—and thus even more powerful.
Details:
- Dimension: approximately 32 H x 25 W x 10 D cm
- Material: 100% Mediterranean terracotta clay
- Technique: 100% handmade in Italy
- Each handcrafted TA RA TA TA Seminara mask is unique. Picture on an indicative basis.
- 14-days return policy
- In stock
Giovanni De Francesco (Bergamo 1976), lives and works between Milan and Paris. He is a visual artist dedicated to sculptural installations through the use of plastic materials, photography, video, painting and sound. Since 1997 he has taken part in many personal exhibits as well as collective ones. He an artistic consultant at the Luisa delle Piane gallery in Milan and is a founding member of the Monstera theatre company. He occasionally collaborates with Andre Branzi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Animal Skin Masks
Materials
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MISTO, Seminara Ceramic Mask
Located in Paris, FR
MISTO invites itself into your interior to ward off spells, evil spirits and evil influences.
Sophie Dries reinvents the traditional Calabrian mask with her contemporary graphic
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Animal Skin Masks
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Raf Verjans Mosaic Aluminum Wall Sculpture
By Raf Verjans
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Brutalist mosaic aluminum and brass wall sculpture/ decor by Belgian artist Raf Verjans.
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1960s Belgian Brutalist Vintage Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Aluminum, Brass
Mid-20th Century Black Dance Mask, Guerrero, Mexico
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Mid-20th century black dance mask, Guerrero, Mexico
A nice old mask from Guererro, Mexico, used in the Tlacololero Dance of the Tlactapa and probably fr...
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1940s Mexican Tribal Vintage Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Wood
Antique Mexican Diablo Mask
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this rare and very antique Mexican Diablo mask in wood, circa 1940. Great patina.
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1940s Mexican Folk Art Vintage Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Wood
Antique Mexican Demon Mask
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this rare antique Mexican Demon mask in wood, circa 1970. The mask makes a sound when moved.
Category
1970s Mexican Folk Art Vintage Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Wood
Cariddi, Seminara Ceramic Mask
Located in Paris, FR
In Greek mythology, the name CARIDDI (Charybdis in English) belonged to a monster that lived in the sea between Calabria and Sicily and destroyed ships by swallowing them up and spitting them back out, generating dangerous whirlpools in the water. This myth is reinterpreted in the form of a mask, which inverts the traditional convex surface to create a concave volume inspired by the underwater world. The mask invites the gaze into the blue depths of its smooth interior, where an uncanny protrusion emerges in the shape of a nose, a signature motif in Giovanni De Francesco’s artistic production. Each nose-island is different from the others; every mask has a unique beauty accentuated by imperfections, smudges, and uncontrollable colors, invoking the unpredictability of fear. This perception overturns the ferocious symbolism of the legendary monster, rewriting CARIDDI as a welcoming narrative. The artist’s explorations of fear, danger, and the unknown become particularly poignant when placed in the recent historical context of Calabria and the Mediterranean Sea.
In the exceptional conditions of the present moment, when hundreds of millions of people are spending more time at home than ever before in living memory, the homeware brand TRAME wants to share the inspiring and supportive influences of these Mediterranean ritual objects with the entire world.
The masks, whether the traditional forms or the contemporary design interpretations, reveal a sense of both timelessness and contemporaneity in their aspirational evocation of a social life with more serenity and less fear.
Details:
- Dimension: approximately 28 H x 22 W x 8 D cm
- Material: 100% Mediterranean terracotta clay
- Technique: 100% handmade in Italy
- Each handcrafted CARIDDI Seminara mask is unique. Picture on an indicative basis.
- 14-days return policy
- In stock
Giovanni De Francesco (Bergamo 1976), lives and works between Milan and Paris. He is a visual artist dedicated to sculptural installations through the use of plastic materials, photography, video, painting and sound. Since 1997 he has taken part in many personal exhibits as well as collective ones. He an artistic consultant at the Luisa delle Piane gallery in Milan and is a founding member of the Monstera theatre company.
He occasionally collaborates with Andre Branzi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Ceramic
African Dogon Manner Tribal Face Mask
Located in New York, NY
African Dogon manner tribal face mask, in the style of the Dogon peoples of Mali.
Dimensions: 12" H x 6" W (approx)
Dealer: S138XX.
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Mid-20th Century Tribal Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Wood
Oro Efe Gelede Mask, Nigeria
Located in Antwerp, BE
The Gelede spectacle of the Yoruba is a public display by colorful masks which combines art and ritual dance to amuse, educate and inspire worship. Gelede celebrates “Mothers” (awon iya wa), a group that includes female ancestors and deities as well as the elderly women of the community, and the power and spiritual capacity these women have in society. However, this power may also be destructive and take the form of witchcraft; therefore, Gelede serves the function of appeasing this power, as well.
Gelede costume and headdress.
Gelede masks...
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Mid-20th Century Nigerian Tribal Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Wood
Traditional, Seminara Ceramic Mask
Located in Paris, FR
Ditto potters with Antonio Bonamico.
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MISTO, Seminara Ceramic Mask, Green, Sophie Dries
Located in Paris, FR
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Antique Mexican Jaguar Mask
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this rare antique Mexican Jaguar mask in leather, circa 1970.
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1970s Mexican Folk Art Vintage Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Leather
19th Century Army Bayonet Training Masks Set, Fencing, Broadsword, Metal Leather
Located in Hoogeveen, NL
Very rare set of 2 training masks for army bayonet training. Pre ww 1 and probably arround 1850-1870. They are both in worn condition but still a beautifull sight...
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Late 19th Century French Other Antique Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Metal
H 13 in W 10.63 in D 9.06 in
Colorful Leather Tiger Mexican Mask
Located in Montreal, QC
Colorful leather Mexican dance mask probably from Zitlala, Guerrero.
Category
1970s Mexican Vintage Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Leather
Venetian Leather Long Nose Carnival Mask
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Venetian leather long nose mask. Worn by the character the plague doctor in 17th century Italy and France.
Category
1980s Vintage Animal Skin Masks
Materials
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Leather Mask of Old Man/Sage, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Ca. 1930s
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Mexican leather mask from San Miguel de Allende, circa 1930s.
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1930s Mexican Vintage Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Leather
Bamileke Horned Tribal Mask from Cameroon, Africa
Located in Miami, FL
Bamileke Horned Tribal Mask from Cameroon, Africa
Offered for sale is a decorative carved mask from the Bamileke people of Cameroon, Africa. This interesting and unusual horned mask...
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Mid-20th Century Cameroonian Tribal Animal Skin Masks
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Collection of Five Vintage Mexican Folk Art Hand Carved Wood Masks
Located in Topeka, KS
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Exceptional Ekoi Leather, Wood and Basketwork Headdress
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
An exceptional Ekoi leather, wood and basketwork headdress, 20th century.
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Located in Studio City, CA
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Venetian Handmade Carnival Mask
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Elaborate carnival masquerade.
Full face made of dyed leather.
Signed.
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1980s Italian Vintage Animal Skin Masks
Materials
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Rare Ekoi Mask from Nigeria
Located in New York, NY
The artistic production of the Ekoi people, who inhabit the southeasternmost reaches of Nigeria, finds its most iconic expression in ritual headcrests of this type, which depict full...
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19th Century Nigerian Antique Animal Skin Masks
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Early Primitive Metal and Leather Mask
Located in Peekskill, NY
This is a very primitive hand made metal mask. Judging from the patina I'd guess this is late 1800s to 1920s. I don't know if its use was ethnic, carnival or religious... But it does...
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Early 20th Century Unknown Animal Skin Masks
Materials
Iron