Cimier "gelede" · Nigéria, Yoruba · ID: 3048692
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…).
L’objet Cimier “gelede” avec l’ID d’objet 3048692 a fait partie de l’enchère 98e vente aux enchères en 26 mars 2022 pour la dernière fois le Zemanek-Münster Hôtel des ventes et avait le numéro de lot 64.
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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