Ceremonial headdress "kwonro" · Côte d'Ivoire, Senufo · ID: 3043508
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Provenance
Carl Otto Hultén, Malmö, SwedenSize
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.
Comparing literature
Goldwater, Robert, Senufo Sculpture from West Africa, Greenwich 1964, ill. 75
Publications
AHDRC: 0150474