Cimier buste "sa-sira-ren" (la jeune femme) ·  Guinée, Kalum / Koba / Kakissa, Baga · ID: 3048172

Description

wood, black paint, base

“Sa-sira-ren” is the ideal embodiment of youthful beauty and femininity. The headdress was danced by young unmarried men. The dances are said to have taken place when the young girls returned from the bush camp, shortly before the young women’s final exhibition dance.

Littérature comparée

Lamp, Frederick, Art of the Baga, New York 1996, p. 169 ff. Szalay, Miklós, Schön-Hässlich, Zürich 2001, p. 83, fig. 67