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Masks & other “pagan” artworks were seized from the villages, burned, or thrown into the rivers. Their interpretations are therefore constrained by the near-complete erasure of the cultural traditions in which they were produced www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-white-...
The White Masks of Gabon: “Foreign” symbolism in Traditional African sculpture.Among the most refined works of African art are the distinctive white masks of southern Gabon in Central Africa.www.africanhistoryextra.com