伟大的面具（Imina na） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	伟大的面具（Imina na）
品名（英）	Great Mask (Imina na)
入馆年号	1977年，1977.394.33
策展部门	迈克尔·洛克菲勒之翼（The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1700 - 公元 1800
创作地区	马里（Mali）
分类	木雕（Wood-Sculpture）
尺寸	高 110 英寸 × 宽 6 3/4 英寸 × 深 7 英寸 (279.4 × 17.1 × 17.8 厘米)
介绍（中）	多贡纪念表演由一个名为Awa的强大仪式组织的发起人监督和实施。阿波社会的成员既是多贡面具形式的创造者，也是舞者。大面具Imina na是一件具有独特重要性的独特雕塑作品，是阿波私人和公共聚会的焦点。虽然面具在名称和形式上，大面具，很少戴。相反，它的存在将其周围环境转变为一个神秘交流的地方，就其规模和作为仪式祭坛的功能而言，大面具是多贡精神生活的公共象征。每隔六十年，阿瓦都会赞助雕刻一个新的大面具，作为围绕Sigui庆祝活动的准备工作的一部分。这两个活动既包括更新的想法，也包括对整整一代长者的集体纪念。阿瓦社会使用天然庇护所，例如定居点郊区的洞穴，来存放仪式物品，正是在那里，一个社区保存了过去和现在的大面具。
介绍（英）	Dogon commemorative performances are supervised and enacted by initiates of a powerful ritual organization known as Awa. Members of the Awa society are both the creators and the dancers of a vast corpus of Dogon mask forms. The Great Mask, Imina na, is a unique sculptural work of singular importance that serves as the focal point of Awa private and public gatherings. Although a mask in name and form, the Great Mask, is rarely worn. Instead its very presence transforms its surroundings into a place of mystical exchanges distinctive both in terms of its scale and its function as a ritual altar, the Great Mask serves as a communal emblem of Dogon spiritual life. Every sixty years, Awa sponsors the carving of a new Great Mask as part of the preparations surrounding the Sigui celebration. These two events embrace ideas of renewal as well as the collective commemoration of an entire generation of elders. The Awa society uses natural shelters, such as caves at the outskirts of settlements, to store ritual objects, and it is there that a community preserves its Great Masks of the past and present.