Word: ashanti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expression resulted in sculpture so powerful that it makes such moderns as Henry Moore and Jacques Lipchitz look like sissies. The wholly abstract mask used in the circumcision ceremony of the secret Poro Society of the Ivory Coast Dan Tribe, slams at the eye like a fist. The Ashanti fertility fetish, carried on the backs of pregnant women to help make their children beautiful, has the simplicity of a lollipop but the elegance of a Donatello; the yellow & black Ibibio carving, used in secret female dances, sits its crescent moon with awesome assurance; and the Mpongwe stilt-dance "Mask...
...possible political power in a new U.S.A. would be Chief Nana Kojo Agyeaman of the Brongs. Impatient with Vichy's failure to resist Germany, he recently led his tribe from the French Ivory Coast to British Ashanti adjoining the Gold Coast. As they marched, the Brongs chanted a traditional song...
...wound up as a subaltern in the 13th Hussars in India. An expert at reconnaissance, he served with the 13th in the Afghan War in 1881. On service in Zululand he won the name of Impeesa (The Wolf that Never Sleeps) from the awed natives, moved on to Ashanti and Matabeleland. By the time of the Boer War he was a colonel in command of Mafeking, where he held off the Boers with a heroic 217-day defense. In 1907, aged 50, big-game hunter, author of Aids to Scouting, an Empire hero, he was back in England as Inspector...