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Description: | CULT Yoruba Sierra Leone West Africa The mask has two anthropomorphic faces carved on either side, with high foreheads; straight noses, half-moon shaped eyebrows and a V shaped mouth. The faces have protruding eyelids with three-dimensional pupils underneath, small ears high on the sides of the head and elaborately carved hair simulating braiding. Both wear a spiked fin-like headdress.
In Africa, masks play an important role in religious ceremonies and sacred festivals; however, in traditional Yoruban belief there is no devil, as in most western religions. It was not until 1850, with the influence of Christianity and Islam, that a devil-figure was assimilated into the Yoruba religious understanding.
Worship in the Yoruba religion is primarily based upon the belief in a Supreme Being, or Oldumare, who is the creator of heaven (Orun) and earth (Aye) and the belief in a variety of lesser deities and ancestral spirits. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | CEREMONIAL : RELIGION : JEN : WEST AFRICA : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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