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Description : wood, black encrusted patina, plant fibre, base The ekpo society was the most important Ibibio political association. In the absence of a centralized political state, ekpo regulated social, political, and economic matters during precolonial times, and masquerades ensured law and order and active communication with ancestral spirits. The masks show a contrastive aesthetics of beauty and ugliness. Artists use asymmetry and disproportion in their mask-making to recreate and comment upon the incongruities and contradictions of human existance, while symmetry and elegance convey ideas about morality and essential goodness. The so-called beauty beast model served to instil fear and awe in people and to invoke the threat of force and authority necessary to maintain order. Published In: Roberts, Mary Nooter & Roberts, Allen F., A Sense of Wonder, African Art from the Faletti Family Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, 1997, p.103, cat. (46b) AHDRC: 0124065 Continent: Africa
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