Ceremonial headdress "kwonro" · Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3043508

Name: Ceremonial headdress "kwonro"
SKU: 3043508
Availability: Discontinued

not available anymore

Provenance

Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, Sweden

Size

H: 48 cm

H: 18.9 inch

Description

wood, polychrome paint, wickerwork, cloth, quite unusually in round shape, rep. (breakages), paint rubbed off in parts.
The “kwonro” ceremonial headdress is worn in a public dance that celebrates to the community the completion of “kwonro” and the second grade of “poro”. The openwork figure or ideogram in the centre is one of the most common images in Senufo graphic arts, that of the “ndeo” or “mandeo” (pl. “mandebele”) or nature spirit. These crests are rare, only few of them are preserved.

The object Ceremonial headdress “kwonro” with the object ID 3043508 was last part of the auction 88th Tribal Art Auction at March 10, 2018 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 230.

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