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Unidentified and Bamana

Female Antelope Headdress (N’Gonzon Koun)

Bamana, 1900

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Unidentified and Bamana

Artist: Unidentified
Culture: Bamana

Female Antelope Headdress (N’Gonzon Koun)

Bamana, 1900

Physical Qualities Wood, fiber, iron, aluminum, paint, 9 13/16 × 23 3/4 × 3 1/2 in. (24.9 × 60.3 × 8.9 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Alan Wurtzburger

Object Number 1954.145.1

"Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963-2017," Apr 22, 2018-July 29, 2018, BMA, Kevin Tervala (Head Curator Katy Siegel).

Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.169, ill.

Wooten, Stephen R. "Antelope Headdresses and Champion Farmers: Negotiating Meaning and Identity through the Bamana Ciwara Complex." African Arts, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer 2000): pp. 19-90, illus p. 24.

Siegel, Katy. "Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture," 1963-2017. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2018, p. 42, ill.

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