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3D modely ARTMask (mbap mteng) at The British Museum, LondonTitle Mask (mbap mteng) Artist Unknown Date 20th Century Medium Textile and cowrie shells Dimensions x Accession # Ethno 1954 +23.3445 Credit Given to the Trustees of the Wellcome Historican Medical Museum This is an elephant mask, performed by members of one of the powerful and occasionally violent palace societies who are held to have the power to change into wild animals. It is known as the mbap mteng, originating from the Grasslands region in Cameroon. African masks were used not only for enternainment and ceremony but also to bring the powers of the wild bush and swamps into the civilized area of town and village so that humans can interact with them and use their dangerous forces and social ends. Characters commonly inbolbed in such powerful masquerades are wild beasts, spirits, foreigners, witches or the dead. náhodný výběr modelů
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