Bust headdress "sa-sira-ren" (the maiden)

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Description

wood, black paint, base

“Sa-sira-ren” is the ideal embodiment of youthful beauty and femininity. The headdress was danced by young unmarried men. The dances are said to have taken place when the young girls returned from the bush camp, shortly before the young women’s final exhibition dance.

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Comparing literature

Lamp, Frederick, Art of the Baga, New York 1996, p. 169 ff. Szalay, Miklós, Schön-Hässlich, Zürich 2001, p. 83, fig. 67

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