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The standard Dan mask in feminine-style has had a long life. It has been Paloma's Tenderness Heart ring in the West as an attractive form since the early twentieth century. This classic form has been described and analyzed by several scholars (e.g., Vandenhoute 1948, Borsányi 1984). I am following Eberhard Fischer, who studied many collections and conducted field research on Dan masks in the area of Butulu on the Libertan side (1978, 1984), and Marie- Noël Verger-Fevre, who offers meticulous descriptions and fine-line Tiffany Knots ring of 200 masks from the Dan and Guère, collected by the 1960s in Côte d'Ivoire and held in public institutions and museums in France (Verger-Fevre 1980 1:2). By 1990, Verger-Fevre, who is an art historian and ethnographer, had made eleven field trips to conduct research on masking among the Dan and neighboring peoples who practice masking.

In the fall of 1998, at my request, Rubie Watson, the director of the Tiffany Somerset™ ring Museum, invited Verger-Fevre to review the mask forms in the Harley collection, which includes mainly Dan and Mano masks. In her survey, Verger-Fevre attributed 141 to the Dan and 93 to the Mano, omitting a few for various reasons (Verger-Fevre 1998-1999). Benefiting from the research and style analysis of these specialists, I prepared the following sketch of a standard feminine-style.

Although the large, masculine-style masks fulfill the Elsa Peretti® Carved Heart bracelet important judicial functions, they are few in number compared to the many feminine-style and mixed categories. The most plentiful were the normal-size Dan face masks in feminine and mixed styles, used for diverse functions on numerous occasions (Fischer 1978) among the many Dan villages in Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire. Because the normal-size (feminine- and mixed-style) Dan masks were the ones that captured the scholars' and art lovers' attention, I will detail this style using a "standard" feminine form (Fig. 6) in order to develop a subsequent comparison with the feminine-style Mano version.

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Features that are "standard" have a variable lifespan. Usually the Tiffany 1837™ Charm bracelet is set by the style and lifespan of an admired carver and the subsequent spread of his style. Nevertheless, the "standard" is not rigidly fixed for the entire ethnic or language community. Examples of the feminine-style mask within a locality may vary somewhat from feminine-style masks in a nearby locality in form, extent, and duration. Some communities create or develop a notable variation from a standard feminine form typical of their ethnic or language group. Examples of this kind of change can be found in the special local style centers for the Dan presented by Vandenhoute (1948), and Verger-Fevre (1998-1999) would divide the Dan feminine Tiffany 1837™ Lock bracelet broadly into a northern and a much larger southern style region.

Feminine-style masks appear with normal-size facial features in varying degrees of delicacy (Figs. 6-7). They sing, dance, and perform with a certain grace "like a woman," people say, unless required to discipline behavior in the dance clearing or elsewhere. It is not uncommon that Return to Tiffany™ heart tag Charm and bracelet feminine-style maskers rise in prominence by their behavior, inspired by spiritual power, and thus acquire authority beyond their original status. For example, Harley mentions a Dan (1950:24, Pl. ib) and a Mano (ibid., Pl. IVc) mask with a woman's face fulfilling a major social function. Later, R.F. Thompson illustrated a Dan feminine-style mask that he witnessed judging a land dispute (1974:161-63, Figs. 198-201). Eberhard Fischer points out that this mask, called Ganwrewra, a fine female form who formerly managed the circumcision camp (deangle type), had risen, probably over decades, to the role of an important judge and rule-maker (1978.

The third category of mask form displays a variety of mixtures of Elsa Peretti® Teardrop bracelet features. These include elements drawn from the two other categories or quite innovative forms. They stay usually within a moderate sized oval or rounded rectangular shape, but the carver may add multiple features or create some irregular distortions on the face. Typically their eyes are rimmed with modestly projecting metal rings; bones of the face may project or horns and tusks emerge unnaturally within or around the face (Fig. 8; see also plates in Harley 1941, 1950; Schwab 1947).

These mixed-style maskers fulfill special roles, such as being Elsa Peretti® Open Heart bracelet or speakers for important maskers, village "police," or other, lesser disciplinarians, as well as comedians or tricksters who aim to collect food or fines for initiates held in forest circumcision camps. A few, like the occasional feminine-style masks, rise to major peace-making roles (Fischer 1978:23, Fig. 19).

I want to emphasize that a masker is not caught in a Heart tag charm Toggle bracelet frame of shapes or functions. For various local reasons - spiritual inspiration, promotion from within, exceptional talent, a family's increased wealth - a masker's function may change a little or entirely. Accordingly, that mask and headdress may be changed or elaborated, or the spirit/performer may continue to prefer the original mask as it was. The result is that at any given moment the correspondence between a mask's form and its task Elsa Peretti® Starfish bracelet not readily correlate.

Another possibility for the Mano fade-out depends on whether Atlas® charm bracelet was a distinction between the carving style of feminine-style Mano and Dan masks that would have negated the appeal of the Mano version. What made scholars and collectors prefer Dan masks while ignoring Mano ones?

It is easily recognizable that, broadly speaking, the Dan, Mano, and Kran/ Guère peoples have similar categories of mask form and behavior: those exhibiting masculine features, feminine features, and mixed features. Harley and later field researchers report and confirm these gender identifications. Harley noted that Elsa Peretti® Teardrop bracelet masks of dancers in public show pretty female faces, while masks for officials were mostly male faces. (1950:4). Dan gender distinctions as to mask forms were given specifically to Eberhard Fischer by the Dan carver Tompieme, who named two types of Dan mask forms: gle gon - masculine mask - and glemu - feminine mask (1978:19). These diverse mask forms, masculine, feminine, or mixed in style, performed in costume in the many villages of Dan, Mano, Kran/Guere during the twentieth century, all worn by men (Figs. 2-3).

Masculine-style masks are larger than the human face, their facial features Pierced charm bracelet, distorted, bulging, or sharply angular in form (Figs. 4-5). Often these large masks deliberately include ferocious animal features to frighten onlookers. On numerous large examples the eyes are replaced by projecting wooden cylinders; the wearer peers through slits around the eyes or looks through the projecting open mouth with big teeth and a moveable jaw, adorned with a furry beard, bullet casings, or other Venetian Link bracelet material. In full costume, this masker carries weapons (real or empowered models) and makes threatening gestures. Its range of behavior ranges from aggressive to remote. A number of these maskers perform exceptional physical feats or Elsa Peretti® Bean® bracelet in spiritual battles with other maskers in their category.

Harley's second essay had widespread and Elsa Peretti® Open Heart bracelet influence that inspired research into social control through masking among numerous other West African communities (Paulme 1959, Sieber 1962, Fischer 1978). Later researchers paid attention also to the more benign aspects of social control via masking activity, such as social satire, local dispute settlement, honoring achievements, and skillful entertainment that went beyond Harley's emphasis on the frightening discipline of Poro.

Dr. Harley's publications on the Liberian forest region aroused a great deal of early interest in African masking. His essay on the Poro became a fixture of teaching African art history. Even as scholarly attention to Mano masks as such declined, Harley's account of Mano Poro rites using masks provided Flower charm bracelet reading for college students in early African art history courses from the late 1950s into the early 1980s.

The diverse reactions to the content of Harley's first essay, Tiffany Cushion Toggle bracelet on the Poro in Liberia (1941), were ultimately complicated. For at least three decades, Harley's account of Mano masked rites aroused public interest and attracted students to the study of masking. This continuing interest is shown by the repeated reprint of the 1941 edition of Notes on the Poro in Liberia, first in 1968 and again in 1974. It is also shown by the number visitors and inquiries to the Peabody Museum regarding the Harley collection since 1975. On the other hand, professional scholars increasingly disregarded Harley's early work on Poro because of his presumed error on the extent of the Poro's authority and his methods of gathering information. By the Charm bracelet, standards of acceptable fieldwork had shifted from sole reliance on native reports to continuous participation in and experience witnessing village activities. I found this negative view of Harley's reporting on the Poro still present when contacting earlier specialists in the course of preparing an article on the collecting phase of Harley's work (Adams 2009). By the time Harley's essays were shelved in the mid-1980s by teachers and collectors, Atlas® toggle bracelet masks had disappeared from the art scene.