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Makonde helmet mask,African tribal mask (2021) Sculpture by Jafeth Moiane
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- Wood on Wood
- Dimensions Height 8.7in, Width 8.3in / 2.00 kg
- Fit for outdoor? No, This artwork can not be displayed outdoor
- Categories Spirituality
The Makonde are an ethnic group in southeast Tanzania, northern Mozambique, and Kenya. The Makonde developed their culture on the Mueda Plateau in Mozambique. At present they live throughout Tanzania and Mozambique, and have a small presence in Kenya.
MAKONDE MASKS
Generally, ancient masks in the Kingdom were symbol of power to the owner.
The power were coming from spiritual world and the ancestors.
The masks are:
1. Ritual or ceremonial object
2. Decorative or ornamental object (Art)
These lipiko masks, which in the language of the Makonde people means “helmet mask.”
The lipiko or mapiko, a term also used for the masquerade dances in which these are worn, as well as to the dancers themselves. Traditionally, the mapiko dances where performed by adult spiritual leaders to celebrate initiation rites that marked the entrance of young boys and girls into new stages of their lives where they were taught the skills of adulthood, traditional songs, dances, costumes, and cultural secrets (Bortolot). Additionally, they were used to honor the recently deceased. Despite the influences of the outside world, there are more mapiko now than ever before, however, like all cultures and rituals, these practices have changed. While still performed at initiations, today the main significance of these ceremonies comes with the opportunity for communities to come together, celebrate, and communicate truths about gender, power and the past. They offer a chance for the Makonde to express, through ritual performance, the realities of their changing world and how that in turn affects their own identity (Bortolot).
COUNTRY OF ORIGEN: Mozambique
PEOPLE: Makonde
MATERIALS: Wood, pigment
DIMENSIONS:
Height: 22 cm- 13.38"
Width: 21 cm- 8.66"
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Jafeth Moiane is a versatile Mozambican artist, working as a painter, sculptor and photographer. He currently lives and works in Mozambique, where he has developed his artistic talent since childhood.
Jafeth Moiane started drawing and painting in 1976, while studying in primary school. From the following year, in 1977, he was already ionate about the art of painting. In 1984-1985, he took a painting course to learn the techniques of drawing in pencil, watercolor, oil and acrylic. Later, in 2013, he also took a batik painting course.
Since 2007, Jafeth Moiane regularly participates in exhibitions across Mozambique, where he presents his varied artistic works.
Currently, the paintings of Jafeth Moiane are dedicated to the people of the CABO DELGADO province, in the PALMA district, in northern Mozambique, where the French company TOTAL is building the largest oil and gas project in Africa and the world. Women and children are brutally killed there by terrorists. Since 2017, tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than 700,000 people have fled to other parts of the country with nothing, only their clothes. It is a humanitarian crisis.
Jafeth Moiane's paintings are a cry for the end of this genocide, for peace and the development of his country, Mozambique. He uses his art to raise awareness of this tragic situation and to raise his voice for the well-being of his people.
- Nationality: MOZAMBIQUE
- Date of birth : unknown date
- Artistic domains:
- Groups: Contemporary Mozambican Artists
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