African Culture Mask

By: Raihanah HamidSalma Yousif

Heba El-ZoheeryElorie Stirling

What is the name of the culture?

The culture that the presentation is going to be talking about is the Woyo culture.

Where is the culture from?

The Woyo are mostly fishermen who live on the Atlantic coast in the Angolan province of Cabinda and spread inland to the southwest region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

What type of art is unique to that culture?

The most famous and common type of art of this culture are their masks. The masks that they made all have symbolical reasons. The Woyo mask refers to the mutual mask by the Woyo people of Western Africa.

What significance does their art have in their culture?

Woyo masks are usually painted with contrasting colors against a white background and are often with a full length costume made from banana leaves.

The colors used in a Woyo mask must have symbolic meaning are sometimes repainted to renew its power.

Woyo masks are carved for the ritual dances of the ‘ndunga’ , a male society responsible for maintaining social order.

Bibliography

http://www.artyfactory.com/africanmasks/masks/woyo.htm

http://www.artyfactory.com/africanmasks/images/woyo.jpg