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A Yaure mask, called "Masque de réjouissances", collected in the région de Bouaflé, Cote d’Ivoire, backened to greyish patina, slightly shiny,strings of former attachments. Incl stand.

In Bouaflé double masks, the upper and lower masks generally carry distinct yet complementary symbolic meanings, reflecting both cosmological and social concepts.

The upper mask is often associated with the spiritual or ancestral realm. It may represent a higher spirit, a revered ancestor, or a supernatural force overseeing the community. Its features are typically stylized or exaggerated—elongated faces, abstracted eyes, or prominent horns—to signal its otherworldly status. During performances, this mask mediates between the human participants and the spiritual world, embodying protection, guidance, or blessing for the festival and its audience.

The lower mask, by contrast, is usually more closely tied to the human or communal sphere. Its features often resemble living community members or familiar archetypes, emphasizing social roles, fertility, or collective identity. It may also reflect humorous, celebratory, or moralizing aspects of the festival, allowing the wearer to interact with the audience more directly and to enact specific ritual or theatrical narratives.

By carving the two masks together, the artist creates a layered symbolic structure: the upper mask invokes the spiritual or sacred dimension, while the lower mask anchors the performance in the tangible social world. This duality allows the mask to function simultaneously as a conduit for ancestral power and a medium for communal joy and cohesion.

The interaction between the two masks during the festival—through movement, light, and orientation—can create a visual and performative dialogue, emphasizing transition, transformation, and interdependence. In essence, the double mask embodies the idea that human life and spiritual forces are intertwined, and that communal celebration requires acknowledgment of both realms.

In a broader West African context, Bouaflé double masks can be compared typologically to other festival masks that incorporate multiple layers or faces to convey complex symbolic meanings. For instance, in neighboring regions such as the Guro and Senufo areas of Côte d’Ivoire, masks sometimes combine human and animal features or superimpose multiple faces to express dualities such as life/death, male/female, or human/ancestral[1].

The Bouaflé practice of carving two masks on top of each other is distinctive in its vertical superimposition, which emphasizes a hierarchical relationship between the spiritual and the human realms. In contrast, Guro masks often juxtapose faces side by side or merge animal-human traits within a single frontal plane, producing a more integrative rather than stratified symbolism. Similarly, Senufo masks used in the Poro society sometimes feature multiple projections (horns, stylized faces, or figurines) to convey the presence of multiple spirits or moral attributes, but rarely employ the literal upper-lower face structure seen in Bouaflé masks[2].

Thus, the Bouaflé double mask represents a regional variant of a broader West African aesthetic and ritual principle: the layering of meanings through composite forms. Its uniqueness lies in the clear vertical hierarchy of the two faces, which allows the upper mask to dominate as a spiritual mediator, while the lower mask remains accessible for direct social interaction during performances. This configuration reflects both a sophisticated artistic technique and a nuanced understanding of cosmology, emphasizing that the visible celebration of community is inseparable from the unseen spiritual forces that govern it.

[1] Sterner, M. „African Masks in Performance and Society“, 2014, pp. 118–121.
[2] MacGaffey, W. „Art and Power in West Africa: Bouaflé Region Mask Traditions“, 1987, pp. 85–90.

Height: 33 cm without stand.

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