Dance headdress "zigiren wonde" · Guinea, Baga · ID: 3044064
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Size
H: 65 cm
H: 25.6 inch
Description
wood,
“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 3044064 was last part of the auction Voyage Tribal Art - Live Online Auction at May 23, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 114.
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Comparing literature
Lamp, Frederick, Art of the Baga, New York 1996, p. 167 ff. AHDRC: 0055687 (comparable object)
Publications
AHDRC: 0153557