Image: Brooklyn Museum 49.32.1 Pendant Mask

Description: In Ghana and the Ivory Coast, regions that acquired great wealth from the mining and trading of gold, rulers displayed their status by wearing a profusion of gold ornaments, even attaching such objects to umbrellas and swords. Although many of these ornaments are abstract geometric shapes, some represent human faces or animals. Such works were made using the lost-wax casting method, in which a clay mold was made around a modeled wax form. The mold was then heated and the wax poured out, after which molten gold was poured in and solidified in the form of the original wax model.
Title: Pendant Mask
Credit: Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum; Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 49.32.1_reference_SL1.jpg
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