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"Salampasu Ceremonial Wooden Mask with copper sheeting" - Congo
Ceremonial mask. A warrior people comprising 60,000 individuals, the Salampasu live in Shaba province between the rivers Lulua and Lueta, tributaries of the Kasai River. Their name is said to mean “hunters of locusts”, but they were widely viewed with terror by adjacent groups. They have retained the customs of a rough and primitive life. The Salampasu live mostly from hunting, but the women do some farming. The masks, regardless of their material composition, are worn in the initiation rites of men’s associations, on occasion of bereavement or enthronement, as well as to pay homage to headhunters. The costume accompanying this type of mask consists of a fiber net adapted to the body, and a skirt of fiber or animal fur. The wearer holds antelope horns or a two-edged sword. Salampasu masquerades were held in wooden enclosures decorated with anthropomorphic figures carved in relief.
Material: wood, copper sheets, vegetable fiber
Height: 31cm. Width: 16.5cm
POSTAGE: R55.00
