Staff with female figure "solima bere", Mali, Bamana, Sikasso region, Kolondiéba circle, village Fakola, Size: H: 149 cm (H: 58.7 inch), ID: 3046702

Staff with female figure "solima bere", Mali, Bamana, Sikasso region, Kolondiéba circle, village Fakola, Size: H: 149 cm (H: 58.7 inch), ID: 3046702 - 2/7

Staff with female figure "solima bere", Mali, Bamana, Sikasso region, Kolondiéba circle, village Fakola, Size: H: 149 cm (H: 58.7 inch), ID: 3046702 - 3/7

Staff with female figure "solima bere", Mali, Bamana, Sikasso region, Kolondiéba circle, village Fakola, Size: H: 149 cm (H: 58.7 inch), ID: 3046702 - 4/7

Staff with female figure "solima bere", Mali, Bamana, Sikasso region, Kolondiéba circle, village Fakola, Size: H: 149 cm (H: 58.7 inch), ID: 3046702 - 5/7

Staff with female figure "solima bere", Mali, Bamana, Sikasso region, Kolondiéba circle, village Fakola, Size: H: 149 cm (H: 58.7 inch), ID: 3046702 - 6/7

Staff with female figure "solima bere", Mali, Bamana, Sikasso region, Kolondiéba circle, village Fakola, Size: H: 149 cm (H: 58.7 inch), ID: 3046702 - 7/7

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Lot 216

94th Tribal Art Auction

Staff with female figure "solima bere" · Mali, Bamana, Sikasso region, Kolondiéba circle, village Fakola · ID: 3046702

sold EUR 2,600

Provenance

Karl-Heinz Krieg, Neuenkirchen, Germany
American Private Collection

Size

H: 149 cm

H: 58.7 inch

Description

wood, metal, leather, traces of sticky sacrificial patina, old collection number and inscription “F 124 / 64 Bambara / Mali - Cercel (Cercle) de Fakola - Krieg”, rest.

Fakola is a community in the Kolondiéba circle / district in the Sikasso region.

This staffs were used in the initiation of girls into womanhood.

Comparing literature

Colleyn, Jean Paul (Hg.), Bamana, Zürich 2001, p. 56

Publications

AHDRC: 0170874

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