Antelope dance crest "tjiwara" ·  Mali, Bamana · ID: 3042414

Description

wood, dark brown patina, black paint, vertical (male) type, with stylized body, combining various animal species, crowned by a seated female figure, min. dam., fine cracks, slight traces of abrasion, base;
the performance of “tjiwara” dance crests was closely linked to agricultural life, resp. the cultivating of land. Legend has it that man had been taught the skills of farming by three animals, the aardvark, the pangolin and the python. This is why these animals are often part of “tjiwara” representations.

The object Antelope dance crest “tjiwara” with the object ID 3042414 was last part of the auction 86th Tribal Art Auction at May 27, 2017 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 185.

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Comparing literature

Zahan, Dominique, Antilopes du Soleil, Vienne 1980, pl. 70, ill. II130

Publications

AHDRC: 0142074