Female antelope headdress with fawn "tjiwara" or "sogonikun" · Mali, Bamana · ID: 3046597

Name: Female antelope headdress with fawn "tjiwara" or "sogonikun"
SKU: 3046597
Availability: Discontinued

not available anymore

Provenance

Thomas Albertini, Bayeux, France

Size

H: 52 cm

H: 20.5 inch

Description

wood / bipartite, cord (hide / plant fibre), brass tags, base

The “tjiwara” society members use a headdress representing, in the form of an antelope, the mythical being who taught men how to farm. The word “tji” means work and “wara” means animal, thus “working animal.”

They perform at farming contests that recognize a champion farmer. Always performing together in a male and female pair, the coupling of the antelope masqueraders speaks of fertility and agricultural abundance.

The object Female antelope headdress with fawn “tjiwara” or “sogonikun” with the object ID 3046597 was last part of the auction 94th Tribal Art Auction at March 7, 2020 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 213.

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