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ID: 300404773
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300404773

 

Record Type: concept
pwo masks (ceremonial masks, masks (costume), ... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name))

 

Note: Distinctive ceremonial masks of the Chokwe people, in the form of an ideal of feminine beauty, including traditional scarification, but worn by men who also weare false breasts and a skirt.
 
Terms:
pwo masks (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,PN)
pwo mask (C,U,English,AD,U,SN)
masks, pwo (C,U,English,UF,U,U)
pwo-maskers (C,U,Dutch-P,D,T,U)
pwo-masker (C,U,Dutch,AD,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.TE

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Objects Facet
Objects Facet
Hierarchy of Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
.... Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of Costume (hierarchy name)
........ Costume (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of costume (mode of fashion)
............ costume (mode of fashion) (G)
Hierarchy of <costume by function>
................ <costume by function> (G)
Hierarchy of masks (costume)
.................... masks (costume) (G)
Hierarchy of ceremonial masks
........................ ceremonial masks (G)
Hierarchy of pwo masks
............................ pwo masks (G)

Additional Notes:
Dutch ..... Karakteristieke ceremoniĆ«le maskers van het Chokwe-volk, in de vorm van een ideaal van vrouwelijke schoonheid, bijvoorbeeld door middel van traditionele insnijding, maar ook gedragen door mannen die daarbij valse borsten en een rok dragen.  

Sources and Contributors:
masks, pwo............  [VP]
.......................  National Museum of African Art [online] (1999-)
pwo mask............  [VP]
.................  National Museum of African Art [online] (1999-)
pwo-masker............  [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
pwo-maskers............  [RKD, AAT-Ned Preferred]
.......................  AAT-Ned (1994-)
pwo masks............  [VP Preferred]
....................  Bach, Assuming the Guise (1991)
....................  National Museum of African Art Library (2005-)
....................  Sieber and Walker, African Art (1987)
 
Subject: .....  [RKD, AAT-Ned, VP]
............  UvA Talen
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... National Museum of African Art [online] (1999-)
Dutch .......... [RKD, AAT-Ned]
.......... AAT-Ned (1994-)

 

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