Self-Portraiture through Masks

Templo Mayor (Main Temple). Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City, Mexico). Mexica (Aztec) C.E. Stone (temple); jadeite (Olmec-style mask).

164. Transformation mask. Kwakiutl, Northwest corner of Canada. Late 19 th century C.E. Wood, paint, and string.

173. Portrait mask (Mblo). Baule peoples (Cote d’Ivoire). Late 19 th to early 20 th century C.E. Wood and pigment.

174. Female (Pwo) mask. Chokwe peoples (Democratic Republic of the Congo). Late 19 th to early 20 th century C.E. Wood, fiber, pigment, and metal.

175. Bundu mask. Sande Society, Mende peoples (West African forests of Sierra Leone and Liberia). 19 th to 20 th century C.E. Wood, cloth, and fiber.

178. Aka elephant mask. Bamileke (Cameroon, western grassfields region). c. 19 th to 20 th century C.E. Wood, woven raffia, cloth, and beads.

218. Buk (mask). Torres Strait. Mid- to late 19 th century C.E. Turtle shell, wood, fiber, feathers, and shell.

222. Malagan display and mask. New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. c. 20 th century C.E. Wood, pigment, fiber, and shell.

Self-Portrait as Mask In your visual arts journal create a mind map brainstorming the different types of masks that you wear or the need for masks in your life. Your final product will be a mask (media of your choice) that represents one of your aspects of your personality or a mask with a deliberate function for your life. – 2 visual arts journal pages – Completed mask project (Oct. 23 rd )