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Maiden Spirit maskers among the Igbo people, near Awka, Nigeria

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Description: Maiden Spirit maskers among the Igbo people, near Awka, Nigeria
TitleMaiden Spirit maskers among the Igbo people, near Awka, Nigeria
Creator name (description)Photograph by G. I. Jones
Creator rolePhotographer
Object typePhotograph
MaterialsUnknown
LocationUnknown
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsIgbo (African people)--Rites and ceremoniesMasks, IgboMasquerades
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Visions of Virtue: The Aesthetics of African Art
Constantine Petridis
Description: The Language of Beauty in African Art
The Language of Beauty in African Art
In the 1960s art historian Robert Farris Thompson was one of the first scholars in the United States to counter the false “beliefs of earlier ethnologists and art critics that Africans were incapable of aesthetic evaluation...
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Constantine Petridis
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
Copyright© 2022 by The Art Institute of Chicago
Related print edition pages: pp.30-39
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00326.3
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22978&redirecttoanchor=83625
Chapter subject tags:Thompson, Robert FarrisFeminine beauty (Aesthetics)--AfricaMale beauty (Aesthetics)--AfricaAesthetics, AfricanBoone, Sylvia ArdynAnthropomorphism--AfricaWomen and gender--AfricaEthics, African

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Posted by:John Carlson
Nov 30
Creator nameCole, Herbert M.
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation date1982
Object typePhotograph
An okoroshi-oma with a cross-dressing...
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Description: Koo-Koo, or Actor-Boy
Koo-Koo, or Actor-Boy
Posted by:John Carlson
May 17
Creator nameBelisario, Isaac Mendes
Creator nationality/cultureJamaican
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1837–1838
Object typePrint
MaterialsLithograph with watercolor
Dimensionsimage, 10 × 7 1/2 in. (25.4 × 19.1 cm); sheet, 14 3/4 × 10 3/4 in. (37.5 × 27.3 cm)
LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/2031810
Accession numberFolio A 2011 24
Koo-Koo, or Actor-Boy
Koo-Koo, or Actor-Boy
Description: Mgbedike (time of the brave) masker among the Igbo people, in performace near Awka,...
Mgbedike (time of the brave) masker among the Igbo people, in performace near Awka, Nigeria
Posted by:John Carlson
Sep 27
Creator name (description)Photograph by G. I. Jones
Creator rolePhotographer
Object typePhotograph
Mgbedike (time of the brave) masker...
c. 1935
Description: Costume and mask
Costume and mask
Posted by:John Carlson
Jun 19
Creator nameAjanaku, Lawrence
Creator nationality/cultureNigerian
Creator roleDesigner
Creation date1900–2000
Object typeClothing/Costume
MaterialsMixed media
Dimensionscostume length 55 3/8 in. (140.5 cm); mask: 11 3/8 × 16 7/8 in. (29 × 43 cm)
LocationFowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles
Costume and mask
Costume and mask
Description: Five Okperegede maskers seated before the Okperegede drum shrine
Five Okperegede maskers seated before the Okperegede drum shrine
Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator name (description)Photograph by Bonnie Weston
Creator rolePhotographer
Object typePhotograph
LocationAmagu Izzi, Nigeria
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Description: Pende masquerade at Ngashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Pende masquerade at Ngashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator nameSousberghe, Léon de
Creator rolePhotographer
Creation date1956
Object typePhotograph
LocationNational Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
https://sova.si.edu/details/EEPA.1999-010#ref575
Accession numberEEPA 1999-100069
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Description: Salo Baki, "Sibondel," Baga Sitemu, Guinea
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Description: Jaw-Bone, or House John-Canoe
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Posted by:John Carlson
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Creator nameBelisario, Isaac Mendes
Creator nationality/cultureJamaican
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1837–1838
Object typePrint
MaterialsLithograph with watercolor
Dimensionsimage, 9 3/4 × 7 1/2 in. (24.8 × 19.1 cm); sheet, 14 3/4 × 10 7/8 in. (37.5 × 27.6 cm)
LocationYale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:4515511
Accession numberFolio A 2011 24
Jaw-Bone, or House John-Canoe
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