Cimier en forme d'oiseau "a-bemp"

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Description

wood, colour pigments, rep.

Given its natural faculty of flight, it is associated throughout the area with transcendence and with supernatural abilities.

This headdresses are worn by young boys. They appear during the rice planting and harvesting ceremonies.

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Littérature comparée

Lamp, Frederick, Art of the Baga, New York 1996, p. 110 f.

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