Bust headdress "sa-sira-ren" (the maiden) · Guinea, Kalum / Koba / Kakissa, Baga · ID: 3048172
sold
EUR 1,500
Provenance
Dutch CollectionSize
H: 55,5 cm
H: 21.9 inch
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.
The object Bust headdress “sa-sira-ren” (the maiden) with the object ID 3048172 was last part of the auction 97th Auction at November 6, 2021 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 129 achieved a sales price of EUR 1,500.
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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