Mask; red cloth and burlap covered with resin; helmet with winged headpiece; red cloth and white paper decoration. Height 42.5 cm. Good condition. “A dancer. He is good. Dances at all fetes of ‘Mukanda’ and also other fetes of Sunday. ‘Kukalinga’ in Chokwe means to walk with a limping “Step-in-Fetchit” walk, knees bent, body sagging forward, and the dancer dances this way.”
Donor:
Daniel J. Crowley and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Dilolo Gare, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Verbatim coll. place:
Dilolo Gare; Chokwe
Culture or time period:
Chokwe
Collector:
Daniel J. Crowley
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Masks (costume)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
1960
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Dimensions:
height 42.5 centimeters
Loans:
S1989-1990 #13: California State University, East Bay (January 10, 1990–February 13, 1990)