Zemanek-Münster

Cimier "gelede" ·  Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3048692

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Provenance
Walter Glaser, Basel, Switzerland
Arnold Bamert, Solothurn, Switzerland
Zemanek-Münster, Würzburg, 25 February 2006, Lot 173
Werner Zintl, Worms, Germany

Description

wood, pigments, places of repair

Gelede" masquerade are meant to honour the special spiritual powers of women (specifically elderly women “awon iya wa” and the great mother Yemoja, “iya nla”). The whole community should benefit from their life-giving forces, peace and harmony should be promoted.

“Gelede” festivals take place every year between march and may at the beginning of the new planting season. They have been described as real spectacles. The mask dancers wear headdresses of enormous variety of shapes and colourful costumes to celebrate the different roles of the villagers in society (market traders, blacksmiths, hunters, mothers, priestesses, etc…).


Littérature comparée

Lawal, Babatunde, The Gèlèdé Spectacle, Seattle, London 1996, p. 196, ill. 7.2


Publications

Bamert, Arnold, Afrika, Stammeskunst in Urwald und Savanne, Olten 1980, S. 136, Abb. 94

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