The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 112, No. 140, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 20, 2010 Page: 13 of 20
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WOSC coach has own African mask museum
Africa has several distinct have struggled to regain their
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The wide open eyes on this Dan tribal mask indicate it will be worn by a male Masks
with narrowed eyes are tor females Masks made just for the tourist trade may not
have open eye holes since they are just for display
Anthropology lie's made lour
trips to Africa recently and is
developing a good collection
of carved African masks
tribes, oi cultures "The cul
lures may be larger than their
actual countries." De la
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Some of them are displayed in Barrera said The European
his office at WOSC He also colonized Africa for one hun
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De la Barrera playing an African kora This is a stringed instrument with the sound
chamber made from a gourd The one shown here was made for the tourist trade
hence it is small The ones that are played in concerts and ceremonies are about six
feet tall with huge gourds African musician Toumani Diabate can be seen playing a
kora on www.myspace com/toumanidiabate The sound is like a cross between class!
cal Spanish guitar and a traditional harp It is easy to see that the banjo is an offshoot
of the kora, originating in Africa
own respective cultures The
obvious differences in tribal
masks demonstrates an
attempt to return to the origi-
nal cultural designs
De la Barrera hasn’t been to
NDAY, JUNE 20. 2010
Western Oklahoma State College Basketball Coach, Rolando De la Barrera holding a
Dan mask from Liberia Purchased on one of De la Barrera's four trips to Africa, this
mask would be worn in ceremonies with a head dress atop, wrapping around the
mask with a grass skirt and sandals
Some of the elongated masks at the top of the wall display are from Gabon The pointy
mask fourth from the left is beaded Most beaded masks come from Ghana The
Mandinka in Gambia make their masks pale-colored They often feature elephants The
Guro tribe from the Ivory Coast and Liberia mixes animal and human motifs in their
masks such as the one sixth from the left along the top of the wall, and the mask
shown on the left side of De la Barrera's head The mask eighth from the left on the top
is made of leather and is from Haiti There is one more Haitian leather mask Can you
locate it in the picture? All the other masks shown are from Africa and are made of
wood
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collects statues from Gambia
From his trips to Central
America, hes starting new
collections, such as frogs
When De la Barrera started
collect masks, he for generations. "While Spain
1980‘s, renaming the regions the so-called Dark Continent
and often recombining oppos for two years He may go next
ing cultures This caused wars year, but he knows for certain
and continued tribal conflict he will return to Africa
by Paula Peterson, researched the ones that he was quite active colonizing in
asst to editor found interesting. Then he the Western hemisphere.
Rolanda De la Barrera, in started selective collecting. France, Portugal and Britain
addition to being the full-time especially Dan masks "One exerted more pressure on
WOSC basketball coach for challenge to collecting is that Africa," he explained Since
both mens and women's you become a hoarder." De la African countries have been
teams, also teaches Barrera said with a laugh, freed from colonialism, they
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