Helmet Mask (Mambu)

n Cameroon’s Northwest Province, all-male regulatory associations called Kwifon are in charge of social control and law enforcement and use masquerades to seek the guidance of supernatural forces. This mask, with its bulging cheeks and eyes and striated hairstyle, represents mambu. Dressed with a feather costume, this character precedes the arrival of more powerful and fearsome masks during burials and funerary celebrations of important association members.

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The Bedroom, 1889

Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte, 1884–86, border added 1888–89

Rue de Paris, temps de pluie, 1877

Les Deux Sœurs, 1881

La Corbeille de pommes, c. 1893

Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer), 1890–91

American Gothic, 1930

Nighthawks, 1942

Mask of Rose Beuret, ca. 1880–82 or 1898

Program Design for the Théâtre Libre, 1890

Kotsuis and Hohhuq-Nakoaktok, 1914

Fête foraine (Fair), from Transmutations, 1934-1935, printed 1967

Transmutations, 1934–1935

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Venise sauvée (Venice Preserved), 1895