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Mende girl with cowrie bead necklace

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Description: Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art
~The Sande Society is a concept, an ideal, an organization, a body of knowledge, a collection of objects, a fellowship of women. The society is sacred, and its communion is secret. Sowo, the classical Sande Society mask, is the embodiment of the society, a presentation which Sande has designed to ennoble its members and strengthen the larger community. In Sowo the...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.153-244
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00275.005

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