Zemanek-Münster

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.


The object Bird headdress “a-bemp” with the object ID 3045727 was last part of the auction 92nd Tribal Art Auction at June 29, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 28 achieved a sales price of EUR 600.

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Comparing literature

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


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