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- A kifwebe or bwadi bwa kifwebe is a mask of the Songye or Luba of the Congo. These masks almost always have streaks (incised or painted) on their surface...
- types of kifwebe masks. The kifwebe masks come in various designs and reference different aspects of nature, culture and cosmology. Kifwebe masks symbolized...
- surface Female kifwebe mask; late 19th or early 20th century; 30.5 x 18.1 x 15.6 cm (12 x 71⁄8 x 61⁄8 in.); Brooklyn Museum. The kifwebe masquerade is...
- crocodile teeth, and warthog fangs. Another well-known example is that of kifwebe masks of the Songye people (Congo Basin), that mix the stripes of a zebra...
- century; wood; 20.6 × 5.4 × 4.8 cm (81⁄8 × 21⁄8 × 17⁄8 in); Brooklyn Museum Kifwebe mask; wood; Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium) Anthropomorphic...
- Throne created by a Bansoa artist in the Bamileke kingdom, a Female Mask (Kifwebe) by Songye artists, and a shrine figure carved by a Baga artist. The museum...
- galleries through her fellowship in Paris. In Les Fétiches, masks from Songye Kifwebe and Guru Dan are visible. In 1941, Jones entered her painting Indian Shops...