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The Kota, numbering about 75,000 people live in the Eastern part of Gabon and slightly into the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Kota live in villages comprising of two or more clans. Clans in turn comprise several family groups who can trace their descent from a common lineage ancestor. This is an important point related to their art. Like any of the 3000 African tribes, the Kota revere the ancestors and their relics.
This Kota mask was modelled after one of the oldest and rarest Kota masks. At the death of a chief, the initiates would take from the body of the deceased various relics, which are then decorated with metal and rubbed with powders with powers. The Kota have produced large quantity of statues of ancestors with the diamond-shaped lower part called mbulu-ngulu. These rather two-dimensional sculptures are in wood; symbolic metals were applied to the upper part in strips or sheets to add power. Copper in particular was identified with longevity and power. Kota figures represent an extremely stylized human body, reduced to shoulders and “arms,” in emptied lozenge shape.
The Kota mask or helmet which represent ancestors is a sign of protection against crisis to combat unseen agents of harm. It is used during such vital matters as fertility, success in hunting, and in commercial ventures. A husband could use it to guard against his wife’s infidelity. In Kota villages the masks are worn during dances in celebration of the initiation of adolescent boys. We can therefore say that the mask was used for protection, since it represented the ancestors. It is obvious, which ancestor would want their descendants suffer?
Most African masks that were taken from the continent are now in the homes of private collectors and museums. The descendants of these mask makers do not have the privilege of seeing what their ancestors carved. Even though the masks were aesthetically appealing, they were functional to the tribes that used them.
African masks represent ideas that are still relevant today. I am making the most rare and most expensive masks available to new collectors in 3D. 50% of Proceeds will be contributed in setting up an Innovation Hub, in Ghana. This Innovation Hub will be a place where young creatives who are the descendants of these mask makers will come to, to develop their ideas and bring them to fruition using technology. Creatives will receive training material to develop their talents and creative abilities.
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By KOFIOBUOBI
The Kota, numbering about 75,000 people live in the Eastern part of Gabon and slightly into the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Kota live in villages comprising of two or more clans. Clans in turn comprise several family groups who can trace their descent from a common lineage ancestor. This is an important point related to their art. Like any of the 3000 African tribes, the Kota revere the ancestors and their relics.
This Kota mask was modelled after one of the oldest and rarest Kota masks. At the death of a chief, the initiates would take from the body of the deceased various relics, which are then decorated with metal and rubbed with powders with powers. The Kota have produced large quantity of statues of ancestors with the diamond-shaped lower part called mbulu-ngulu. These rather two-dimensional sculptures are in wood; symbolic metals were applied to the upper part in strips or sheets to add power. Copper in particular was identified with longevity and power. Kota figures represent an extremely stylized human body, reduced to shoulders and “arms,” in emptied lozenge shape.
The Kota mask or helmet which represent ancestors is a sign of protection against crisis to combat unseen agents of harm. It is used during such vital matters as fertility, success in hunting, and in commercial ventures. A husband could use it to guard against his wife’s infidelity. In Kota villages the masks are worn during dances in celebration of the initiation of adolescent boys. We can therefore say that the mask was used for protection, since it represented the ancestors. It is obvious, which ancestor would want their descendants suffer?
Most African masks that were taken from the continent are now in the homes of private collectors and museums. The descendants of these mask makers do not have the privilege of seeing what their ancestors carved. Even though the masks were aesthetically appealing, they were functional to the tribes that used them.
African masks represent ideas that are still relevant today. I am making the most rare and most expensive masks available to new collectors in 3D. 50% of Proceeds will be contributed in setting up an Innovation Hub, in Ghana. This Innovation Hub will be a place where young creatives who are the descendants of these mask makers will come to, to develop their ideas and bring them to fruition using technology. Creatives will receive training material to develop their talents and creative abilities.
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