Fake? also reminds us that in certain cuitures authenticity is a foreign concept This is true of much African art when the authenticity of an object is
(40) considered by collectors to depend on its function As an illustration, the study commpares two versions of a chi wara mask made by the Bambara people of Mali One has pegs allowing it to be attached to a cap for its intended ceremonial purpose. The second, otherwise
(45) identical, lacks the pegs and is a replica made for sale African carving is notoriously difficult to date, but even if the ritual mask is recent, made perhaps to replace a damaged predecessor, and the replica much older, only the ritual mask should be seen as authentic
(50) for it is tied to the form’s original function. That at least is the consensus of the so-called experts. One wonders whether the Bambaran artists would agree
21. The passage can best be described as doing which one of the following?
(A) recondciling varied points of view
(B) chronicling the evolution of a phenomenon