Dance headdress "zigiren wonde" ·  Guinea, Baga · ID: 3035673

Description

wood, partly encrusted, partly shiny dark brown patina, black paint remains, a female bust rising from four feet, high forehead crest, rest. (two feet replaced), traces and missing parts through insect caused damage, cracks;
“zigiren wonde” means “the young bride” and represents a married woman who has given birth to children. Thus her breasts are long, though rarely flat. She is a cultivated woman, with scarification patterns around her neck and breasts and often rings around her neck.

The object Dance headdress “zigiren wonde” with the object ID 3035673 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 223.

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Comparing literature

Lamp, Frederick, Art of the Baga, New York 1996, p. 167 ff.