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  2. Traditional African masks - Wikipedia

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    Traditional African masks. Traditional African masks are worn in ceremonies and rituals across West, Central, and Southern Africa. They are used in events such as harvest celebrations, funerals, rites of passage, weddings, and coronations. Some societies also use masks to resolve disputes and conflicts.

  3. FESTIMA - Wikipedia

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    2022. The Festival International des Masques et des Arts (International Festival of Masks and the Arts), or FESTIMA, is a cultural festival celebrating traditional African masks held in Dédougou, Burkina Faso. [1] Founded to help preserve traditional cultural practices in the modern age, FESTIMA features masks and traditions from several West ...

  4. South African art - Wikipedia

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    Culture of South Africa. South African art is the visual art produced by the people inhabiting the territory occupied by the modern country of South Africa. The oldest art objects in the world were discovered in a South African cave. Archaeologists have discovered two sets of art kits thought to be 100,000 years old at a cave in South Africa.

  5. African folk art - Wikipedia

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    African folk art consists of a variety of items: household objects, metal objects, toys, textiles, masks, and wood sculpture. Most traditional African art meets many definitions of folk art generally, or at least did so until relatively recent dates. SUDAN basket -tray, tabar of weaved natural plant fibre, coloured in different colours.

  6. Nguni shield - Wikipedia

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    Nguni shield. A Nguni shield is a traditional, pointed oval-shaped, ox or cowhide shield which is used by various ethnic groups among the Nguni people of southern Africa. Currently it is used by diviners or for ceremonial and symbolic purposes, [1] and many are produced for the tourist market. [2] A cow-hide shield is known as isihlangu, ihawu ...

  7. African art - Wikipedia

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    The study of African art until recently focused on the traditional art of certain well-known groups on the continent, with a particular emphasis on traditional sculpture, masks and other visual culture from non-Islamic West Africa, Central Africa, [15] and Southern Africa with a particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Recently ...

  8. Traditional African religions - Wikipedia

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    Traditional African religions generally hold the beliefs of life after death (a spirit world or realms, in which spirits, but also gods reside), with some also having a concept of reincarnation, in which deceased humans may reincarnate into their family lineage (blood lineage), if they want to, or have something to do.

  9. National symbols of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Governor-General's flag – blue, displaying the royal crest between two ribands bearing the name of the country. Used from 1931 to 1961. [1] State President's flag (1) – blue, displaying the national coat of arms below the letters SP. Used from 1961 to 1984.

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