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Catalogusnummer: 5388
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Guinea, Baga, a dance headdress, zigiren wonde,

with a metal bell on a braided animal leather string, with blackish brown patina. pigment remains, metal sheet, female bust with prominent breasts, rising from a board-shaped base with forked projections. With a handwritten collection number "14GA" at the back, rep. (breakage left foot), cracks, traces of abrasion; "zigiren wonde" means "the young bride" and represents a married woman who has given birth to children. Thus her breasts are long, though rarely flat. She is a cultivated woman, with scarification patterns around her neck and breasts and often rings around her neck.

H. 82 cm.

Provenance: Emil Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland

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