Image: Bambara mask
Bambara masks are used during rituals such as initiation, weddings, births, circumcisions, funerals, and purifications of objects or beings. Masks receive offerings and sacrifices and, on certain occasions, are even ritually buried when their role has ended and their sacred character lost.
Carved wooden anthropomorphic mask overlaid with metal.
- Photographer:
- Melanie Van Olffen
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum
Additional information
Australian Museum Collection E76226
Donated in 1979
Provenance: Bambara people, Mali
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