African Dance Chiwara Mask Ismael Flores Peavy’s signature label

Peavy’s signature label

adding authenticity and enhancing its value for any art collection

This exquisite ink drawing

the heir apparent

and vivid red lips

African Dance Chiwara Mask Ismael Flores Peavy’s signature labelChiwara is a ritual object representing an antelope, used by the Bambara ethnic group in Mali. The Chiwara initiation society uses Chiwara masks. The Chi Wara is always danced with each wooden figure attached to a basket on the dancers head, and the body covered in a huge pile of raffia. Often, the face is obscured with raffia that has been colored or decorated, and the dancer carries a long staff. The figures are always in one or more male female