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Sowo dancer's costume, detail of bells

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Description: Sowo dancer's costume, detail of bells
TitleSowo dancer's costume, detail of bells
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
SubjectsWomen, MendeFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)Rites and ceremonies
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Sylvia Ardyn Boone
Description: Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art
Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art
~In a lament at the sudden death of a young Mende woman, an older Sande nyaha cries: “Let us not hear this! My child, big forehead, woman with plenty of hair, what brought this for you? My Sande-girl!” Another intones, “Do not leave me, Ô big forehead, Ô my child, fine neck!” A woman relative, after listing the...
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Sylvia Ardyn Boone
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 1986 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.245-248
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00275.006
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21872&redirecttoanchor=71170
Chapter subject tags:Women, MendeFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)--AfricaSande SocietyMende (African people)--Rites and ceremonies

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Description: Sowo mask, detail of neck rings
Sowo mask, detail of neck rings
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask, detail of neck rings
Sowei mask, detail of neck rings
Description: Sowo mask with bird adornment
Sowo mask with bird adornment
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask with bird adornment
Sowei mask with bird adornment
Description: Sowo mask
Sowo mask
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask
Sowei mask
Description: Birth of Venus
Birth of Venus
Posted by:John Carlson
Feb 15
Creator nameBotticelli, Sandro
Creator nationality/cultureItalian
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1485
Object typePainting
MaterialsTempera on linen
Dimensions67 3/4 x 109 1/2 in. (172 x 278 cm)
LocationGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence
https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/birth-of-venus
Accession numberInv. 1890 no. 878
Birth of Venus
Birth of Venus
Description: Sowo mask, detail of forehead
Sowo mask, detail of forehead
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask, detail of forehead
Sowei mask, detail of forehead
Description: Sowo mask
Sowo mask
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask
Sowei mask
Description: Sowo mask, detail of ear
Sowo mask, detail of ear
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask, detail of ear
Sowei mask, detail of ear
Description: Sowo mask
Sowo mask
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask
Sowei mask
Description: Sowo mask
Sowo mask
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask
Sowei mask
Description: Sowo mask
Sowo mask
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask
Sowei mask
Description: Sowo mask with amulet
Sowo mask with amulet
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask with amulet
Sowei mask with amulet
Description: Sowo mask and costume
Sowo mask and costume
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask and costume
Sowei mask and costume
Description: Sowo mask and costume
Sowo mask and costume
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask and costume
Sowei mask and costume
Description: Sowo mask
Sowo mask
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask
Sowei mask
Description: Mende woman and Sowo mask
Mende woman and Sowo mask
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Mende woman and Sowo mask
Mende woman and Sowei mask
Description: Mende women and girls (haenjo ceremony)
Mende women and girls (haenjo ceremony)
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Mende women and girls (haenjo ceremony)
Mende women and girls (haenjo ceremony)
Description: Sowo mask
Sowo mask
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask
Sowei mask
Description: Sowo dancer in crowd
Sowo dancer in crowd
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo dancer in crowd
Sowei dancer in crowd
Description: Venus Rising from the Sea (Venus Anadyomene)
Venus Rising from the Sea (Venus Anadyomene)
Posted by:John Carlson
Feb 15
Creator nameTitian
Creator nationality/cultureItalian
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1520
Object typePainting
MaterialsOil on canvas
LocationDuke of Sutherland Collection, Edinburgh, on loan to the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/titian-tiziano-vecellio
Venus Rising from the Sea (Venus...
Venus Anadyomene
Description: Mende, Sowo Masks, Bundu Dancers, Kenema, Sierra Leone
Mende, Sowo Masks, Bundu Dancers, Kenema, Sierra Leone
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation date1974
Object typePhotograph
LocationFrom W. L. Hommel, "Art of the Mende," 1974
Mende, Sowo Masks, Bundu Dancers,...
Mende, Sowei Masks, Bundu Dancers, Kenema, Sierra Leone
Description: Legs of Mende girls painted with hojo
Legs of Mende girls painted with hojo
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Legs of Mende girls painted with hojo
Legs of Mende girls painted with hojo
Description: Sowo mask
Sowo mask
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBoone, Sylvia Ardyn
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Sowo mask
Sowei mask
Description: Mende girls painted with hojo and wearing crocheted caps
Mende girls painted with hojo and wearing crocheted caps
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Mende girls painted with hojo and...
Mende girls painted with hojo and wearing crocheted caps
Description: Mende women and girls (haenjo ceremony)
Mende women and girls (haenjo ceremony)
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBusselle, Rebecca
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
LocationCollection of the artist
Mende women and girls (haenjo ceremony)
Mende women and girls (haenjo ceremony)
Description: Mende dancer with Sowo mask
Mende dancer with Sowo mask
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBoone, Sylvia Ardyn
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
Mende dancer with Sowo mask
Mende dancer with Sowei mask
Description: Sowo mask with bird adornment
Sowo mask with bird adornment
Posted by:John Carlson
Oct 20
Creator nameBoone, Sylvia Ardyn
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation datec. 1973–1975
Object typePhotograph
Sowo mask with bird adornment
Sowei mask with bird adornment
Description: From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried: 1. "From Here I saw What...
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried: 1. "From Here I saw What Happened and I Cried"
Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 01
Creator nameWeems, Carrie Mae
Creator name (description)From an original daguerreotype taken by Joseph T. Zealy, 1850
Creator nationality/cultureAmerican
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation date1995–1996
Object typePhotograph
MaterialsToned gelatin silver print. C-print with sandblasted text on glass
Dimensions26 3/4 x 22 in. (67.9 x 55.8 cm)
LocationMuseum of Modern Art, New York
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/45579
Accession number70.1997.1–34
From Here I Saw What Happened and I...
From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried: 1. "From Here I saw What Happened and I Cried

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