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Mask - Fang - Gabon  (No Reserve Price)
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Mask - Fang - Gabon (No Reserve Price)

Fang Ngil Masks carved wooden mask from Gabon hand carved for traditional celebrations and rituals modernly used for wall decor, Gifts, Art gallery are used for religious and social events to represent the spirits of the ancestors or to control the good and evil forces in the community. It comes to life when the mask is possessed by the spirits in a dance performance, enhanced by the music, color, and atmosphere of the occasion. Some combine human and animal features to unite man with his natural environment. This bond with nature and the spirit world is of great importance to many tribal cultures and through the ages, masks have always been used to express this relationship. The mask's spirit leaves at the end of the ritual, and it is then disposed of.

No. 82815793

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Mask - Fang - Gabon  (No Reserve Price)

Mask - Fang - Gabon (No Reserve Price)

Fang Ngil Masks carved wooden mask from Gabon
hand carved for traditional celebrations and rituals

modernly used for wall decor, Gifts, Art gallery are used for religious and social events to represent the spirits of the ancestors or to control the good and evil forces in the community. It comes to life when the mask is possessed by the spirits in a dance performance, enhanced by the music, color, and atmosphere of the occasion. Some combine human and animal features to unite man with his natural environment. This bond with nature and the spirit world is of great importance to many tribal cultures and through the ages, masks have always been used to express this relationship. The mask's spirit leaves at the end of the ritual, and it is then disposed of.

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