| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxi, 177 p. : ill., map ; 28 cm. |
| Note |
"This publication accompanies an exhibition held at the QCC Art Gallery, The City University of New York, Bayside, New York, 2012." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Historical documentation of the Sande Society. Accounts of the Portuguese. Antonio Fernandes. Pedro da Sintra. Duarte Pacheco Pereira. Alvise da Cadamosto. Alvaro Velho ; Overview of early European descriptions of the Sande Society. General comments. Valentim Fernandes. Andre Alvares d'Almada. Baltasar Barreira ; Seventeenth and eighteenth century descriptions of the Sande Society. Olfert Dapper and John Barbot. John Matthews. Thomas Masterman Winterbottom, M.D. ; Evidence of absence or absence of evidence concerning Sande Society masks at the end of the eighteenth century ; Nineteenth century Christian missionary encounters. George Thompson. Joseph May. C.F. Schlenker. United Brethren in Christ missionaries. The "1869" Prince Momolu Massaquoi mask ; Comments of some nineteenth century travelers into the interior of Sierra Leone ; The first documentation of helmet mask use in Sande Society ceremonies in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Johann Buttikofer. Thomas Joshua Alldridge. Harry Hamilton Johnston. Alphonso Sylvester Lisk-Carew ; Other observations in the early decades of the twentieth century. Swiss travelers and collectors. Northcote Thomas. Frederick William Hugh Migeod. T.W. Butt-Thompson. Milton Augustus Margai. Kenneth L. Little. Guy Massie-Taylor -- Sande through the postmodern lens -- Sande in the new millennium -- The Sande Society : power, beauty, and female agency. Overview of the Sande Society ; Sande initiation initiation and circumcision ; Sande Society organization ; Sande masks ; The sculpting of masks ; Sande masquerade -- The Sowei headpiece : invariance and innovation. Hairstyles ; Neck rings ; Janus representations ; Birds and snakes ; Aquatic creatures ; Amulets and talismans ; Flaps ; Sculpted horns ; Prestige symbols ; Cooking pots ; Cowrie shells ; Aesthetics ; Gonde and Gongoli masks ; The naming of masks ; Sande medicine heads -- The Humoi, Gongoli, Gbetu, and Njagba masquerades, and the Poro Tasso figure. The Humoi Society masquerade ; The Gongoli masquerade ; The Gbetu masquerade ; The Njagba masquerade ; The Poro Tasso figure -- Catalogue of headpieces. |
| Subject |
Imperato family -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.
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Sande Society -- Exhibitions.
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Masks, African -- Private collections -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions.
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Mende (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies -- Exhibitions.
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Women -- Africa, West -- Rites and ceremonies -- Exhibitions.
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| Added Author |
Imperato, Pascal James.
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QCC Art Gallery.
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| ISBN |
9781936658107 (alk. paper) |
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1936658100 (alk. paper) |
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