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Bird headdress "a-bemp", Guinea, Baga, Size: H: 40 cm (H: 15.7 inch), ID: 3045727
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Lot 28
92nd Tribal Art Auction

Bird headdress "a-bemp" ·  Guinea, Baga · ID: 3045727

sold EUR 600
Provenance
Alfred Klinkmüller, Berlin, Germany
Size
H: 40 cm
H: 15.7 inch

Description

wood, colour pigments, rep.

Given its natural faculty of flight, it is associated throughout the area with transcendence and with supernatural abilities.

This headdresses are worn by young boys. They appear during the rice planting and harvesting ceremonies.

Comparing literature

Lamp, Frederick, Art of the Baga, New York 1996, p. 110 f.

Africa

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