Question 6
- List any five features of Dan Ngere mask. .
- State any five functions of Dan Ngere mask. .
Observation
Few candidates attempted this question. The few that attempted the question performed averagely well. They were expected to respond to the question in the following manner:
- Some have enlarged foreheads
- some have closed mouth with pointed chin
- some have scarified marks.
- some of them are stained with brown dye.
- carved in woo d
- highly idealized
- some are simple in form
- some are oval in shape
- some have slight slit or hole for the eye
- pronounced eye lids
- long nose.
- produced in a woman form.
- they have smooth finish.
- they are grotesque and strong.
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Used as a channel of communication.
- for ritual purposes
- for circumcision
- for inducing happiness among initiates
- for entertainment purposes
- represents the spirit of ancestors
- for teaching the initiates the moral value of Poro society
- used in scaring women and children away during initiation
- for funeral/commemorative rites
- for collecting food from the mothers of the youths
- it conceals the identity of the wearer.