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