THE SUFFOLK TIMES
By Barbaraellen Koch
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| Artist Daniel Brazil of Wading River holds an example of a Bokata Reliquary Figure. |
NEW YORK - Artist Daniel Brazil of Wading River offered a workshop in the creation on reliquary masks and figures Saturday at East End Arts’ Carriage House in Riverhead Saturday morning. Bakota Indians of western Gabon and the eastern Congo used reliquary guardian figures or “mbulu ngulu” to guard the bones of family ancestors in the same way that the bones of saints are given divine significance by the Catholic Church. The reliquary figures are among the world’s greatest African art treasures. The figures were meant to ward off evil spirits. [
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An African-style reliquary mask created Saturday at East End Arts.
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