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Female Figure (Jonyeleni)

Bamana

Female Figure (Jonyeleni)

Bamana, 1899-1977

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Bamana

Female Figure (Jonyeleni)

Bamana, 1899-1977

Physical Qualities Wood, cloth, string, beads, cowrie shells, copper alloy, 30 x 6 1/4 x 6 in. (76.2 x 15.9 x 15.2 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Robert Elkin, Mitchellville, Maryland
Object Number 2008.283
A standing female figure on self-base. Elongated torso and small, conical breasts, silver-metal discs covering eyes. Beade strands around neck and one wrist, cloth cache-sexe with cowries, brass anklets on each foot.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2008; Robert Elkin by purchase, 1978; Unknown dealer, Los Angeles, California
'Gift of Art,'"BMA Today," The Baltimore Museum of Art, Winter-Spring 2010, pp. 12, ill. ['In a New Light,' Campaign Spotlight]
J.-P. Colleyn. "Femmes du Mande au Mali" in Femms dans les arts d'Afrique (Musee Dapper, 2008), p. 91-92.

K. Ezra. A Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture (NMAfA, 1986), p. 17, 21.

P. Imperato. Buffoons, Queens, and Wooden Horsemen: The Dyo and Gouan Societies of the Bambara (1983), p. 39, 50.

S. Male. "The Initiation as Rite of Passage: The Jo and Gwan" in Bamana: the Art of Existence in Mali (Museum for African Art, 2001), p. 152

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