Bird headdress "a-bämp" · Guinée, Baga · ID: 3041336
Swedish Private Collection
Description
wood, remains of formerly colourful painting, openwork design, two birds, one behind the other, reminding of pelicans, superstructure in shape of double comb, small traces of insect caused damage, abrasion of paint, partly repainted (black colour);
bird-shaped headdresses, called “a-bämp” (=“bird”) or “koni”, are worn by young men and boys. They appear during the rice planting and harvesting ceremonies. Given its natural faculty of flight, it is associated throughout the area with transcendence and with supernatural abilities.
L’objet Bird headdress “a-bämp” avec l’ID d’objet 3041336 a fait partie de la dernière vente aux enchères 84th Tribal Art Auction dans 5 novembre 2016 le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes. L’objet portant le numéro de lot 129 a atteint un prix de vente de 2 500 €.
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Littérature comparée
Schädler, Karl-Ferdinand, Encyclopedia of African Art and Culture, Munich 2009, p. 54 Lamp, Frederick, Art of the Baga, New York 1996, p. 110 f.