Forms Of Traditional Art In The Igbo Culture

Almost every civilization or culture all at least has their own forms of traditional art, doesn’t matter if the art was influenced, taken, or created. Art includes almost everything to anything, from physical things to things you can only hear or even feel, for example: painting, music, sculptures, dance, architecture, literature, movies, plays, and much more. Art is also very important because it contains meaning and expression behind it. This all includes the Igbo culture, a civilization found in Nigeria, Africa. The Igbo culture reflects many types of traditional arts such as dances for various occasions, masks and maiden masks, various musical instruments, and architecture.
Igbo Dance

Just like dance, they are used in many occasions, like festivals, there are also hundreds to thousands types of Igbo masks. Their masks, as specified in zyama “incarnate unspecified spirits of the dead, forming a vast community of souls” (Tribal African 3). This means that the Igbo people believe in things like spirits and the afterlife, so they worshipped them by making masks. A majority of the Igbo masks have the color white on them to represent the look of a spirit, also the Igbo people would perform with costumes that completely covered their bodies (tribal African 3). Igbo people really wanted to look like and represent their worshipped spirits in a complete disguise, because they were very important to them. Also, just like dances they were shown at festivals, rituals, burials, and social