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The Ibo
use thousands of masks, which incarnate the spirits or the dead. These
masks, made out of lightweight wood, play a role in the judicial system
or in contrast are created for entertainment. They appear every year
for the harvest celebrations, at the funerals of notaries or the
commemoration of some initiation cults. Through the masks, the Ibo
reflect a certain complementarity, by opposing beauty with bestiality,
the feminine with the masculine, black with white.
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