Kavat Mask
by Natasha Marco
Title
Kavat Mask
Artist
Natasha Marco
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
'Connecting Cultures: A World in Brooklyn' exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Worn during spectacular night dances, this helmet mask represents a leaf spirit, one of the many bush spirits depicted by kavat bark-cloth masks. The mask is formed by stretching bark cloth over a thin cane frame. The pigments that decorate these masks have general symbolic associations: red with masculinity, reminiscent of the flames through which the mask dances at night; black with femininity, the soot of cooking fires, and fertile earth; and white with the spirit world.
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November 9th, 2012
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