Dance headdress "zigiren wonde" ·  Guinea, Baga · ID: 3036163

Description

wood, partly shiny blackish brown patina, red pigment remains, metal sheet, female bust with prominent breasts, rising from a board-shaped base with forked projections, necklace with bell pendant, handwritten collection number “14GA” at the back, rep. (breakage left foot), cracks, traces of abrasion;
“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 3036163 was last part of the auction 76th tribal art auction at March 22, 2014 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 129.

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Comparing literature

Robbins, Warren M. & Nancy Ingram Nooter, African Art in American Collections, o.O. 1989, p. 141, ill. 239 Lamp, Frederick, Art of the Baga, New York 1996, p. 167