Bamana
Female Antelope Headdress (Tyiwara)
Bamana, 1866-1932
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Bamana
Female Antelope Headdress (Tyiwara)
Bamana, 1866-1932
Physical Qualities
Wood, basketry, wood fiber, rope, string, beads, metal, 32 11/16 in. (83 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Bernice Barth, Los Angeles
Object Number
1997.226
Female Antelope headdress (Chi Wara) with baby antelope on back; both mother and baby have a string of beads; wooden base attached to basket covered with black fiber; oval ears on mother and baby.
Galerie Koller Zürich. "Afrikanische Kunst," June 25, 2005. (Cat. 17)
LaGamma, Alisa, "Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture," New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002, pp. 80-121.
Wooten, Stephen R., "Antelope Headdresses and Champion Farmers: Negotiating Meaning and Identity through the Bamana Ciwara Complex," African Arts, Summer 2000, vol XXXIII, no s, pp 18-33.
Zahan, Dominique, "The Two Worlds of Ciwara," African Arts, Summer 2000, vol XXXIII, no s, pp 35-45.
LaGamma, Alisa, "Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture," New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002, pp. 80-121.
Wooten, Stephen R., "Antelope Headdresses and Champion Farmers: Negotiating Meaning and Identity through the Bamana Ciwara Complex," African Arts, Summer 2000, vol XXXIII, no s, pp 18-33.
Zahan, Dominique, "The Two Worlds of Ciwara," African Arts, Summer 2000, vol XXXIII, no s, pp 35-45.
