African masks.
African masks amaze us with its diversity and attractive appearance. Looking for any African mask, you know, it's not just an image mask is full of deep meaning and something always stands for.
Most often masks are designed to give a person the necessary qualities to him strength, wisdom, endurance, luck and protection of the powers, protection from evil spirits. Therefore, very often masks combine the features of human and animal or several animals strengths of animals transmitted to humans, wear a mask.
For some, the most important abstract symbolism of masks: a house on top of the mask headgear means the universe, while others are attracted to the portrait mask Makonde in Tanzania, with their teeth inserted, inlaid metal irises, hair, fur of various animals.
In Guro and Baule tribal mask distributed-HRE: on the one hand you look human profile, on the other animal snout. Patterns on the masks are cut and covered with paint or laid out beads and shells. Each ornament means something symbolic.
The zigzag path of the ancestors, the complex path by which you want to go with dignity, to the spirits of dead ancestors were you happy. Chess ornament means the duality of the world, the confrontation between good and evil, ignorance and knowledge, male and female.
The masks on this site belong to different peoples of Africa. To print your favorite mask to you, click the image and print the larger image. You can paint it, as shown in the illustration or on its own. In addition, the mask can be decorated with various beads, colored feathers, ribbons and fringe.
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