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Mende Information Types of Art: Most Mende art is associated with initiation and healing and includes wooden masks, twin figures, and medicine objects. History: The Mende language is closely related to the Mande language group, indicating that the Mende migrated from the Sudan to the north.
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Mende people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mende may refer to: Mende people Mende language a commune of France, Mende in the Lozère département. a village in Pest county Hungary: Mende, Hungary Mende (Greece) was a city of Ancient Greece, located on the Chalcidice peninsula in Macedonia...
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Mende (Mɛnde yia) is a major language of Sierra Leone, with some speakers in neighboring Liberia. It is spoken both by the Mende people and by other ethnic groups as a regional lingua franca in southern Sierra Leone. Mende is a tonal language belonging to the Mande branch of the Niger-Congo...
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Sample text in Mende in the Latin alphabet The Mende syllabary was invented in 1921 by Kisimi Kamara (ca. 1890-1962) of Sierra Leone. During the 1940s the British set up the Protectorate Literacy Bureau in Bo with the aim of teaching the Mende people to read and write with a version of the Latin alphabet. As a result,
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Art of the Mende Peoples The Mende people are an ethnic group made up of mostly farmers. They live on the West coast of Africa in Sierra Leone. The Mende are divided into two groups. The Mende believe that all humanistic and scientific power is passed down through the secret societies.
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Mende Bundu Society (Sowei) Mask Mature woman of Mende wore the mask in portraying the image of beauty and womanhood. The mask is a materialization of the embodied ideals of the Mende culture. The power of the mask is in the spirit, Sowo (also known as Nowo or Sowei), The mask is divided into four parts: the ringed neck,
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'It is also a syllabary and looks "similar" to the Vai syllabary but unlike the Vai which reads from left to right, the Mende reads from right to left due to it's having been influenced by ancient pictographs and the secret scripts used to transcribe Arabic in the Hodh region of Mauritania.
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The 2,000,000 Mende inhabiting Sierra Leone comprise numerous kinds of social structure, such as firmly marked kin groups, political hierarchies and societies for diverse purposes: training boys and girls in appropriate behavior, The Mende are farmers who grow rice, All Mende girls join the sande society at puberty.
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Mask (Bundu Society), carved wood, 17" h. x 8-1/2" w. x 10" diam., 2000.5.68...
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