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Description : Fine Bamana Female Figure, Bougouni or Dioila Region, Mali jonyeleni Wood with glossy dark brown patina; fiber Height 18 1/4in (46.5cm) Provenance Don Nelson Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut John Giltsoff, New York/Brussels/Gerona Maureen Zarember, New York Published Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali, edited by Jean-Paul Colleyn, Museum for African Art/Museum Rietberg/Snoeck-Ducaju, New York/Zürich/Gent, 2001, cat. no. 140 Exhibited New York, Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali, Museum for African Art, 13 September 2001-19 May 2002 Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, 28 February-11 May 2003 Provenance French Private Collection American Private Collection According to Salia Malé (Ibid. p. 154), 'Jonyeleni figurines [are] representations of woman in the time of the first origination of Jo (an extremely complex and sacred concept connected with various rituals of the Bamana culture). These statues are the materialization of the soul of the female entity at the origin of the initiation practices which organize the society and maintain social order. According to Kate Ezra, quoted by N. Meyere, they are 'exaggerated in their form [. . .] always shining with oil and composed of flat surfaces, cubes, cones and cylinders which join up sharp angles. They are sculpted with their clothing, pearls, metal jewels, and scarifications on the body. They refer to the young girl in her ideal state, at her highest degree of physical attraction.'' Finely carved, the present example displays the exaggerated features described by Ezra above, including the voluminous, rounded buttocks, protruding conical breasts, broad shoulders and large head crested medially with large rounded ears having piercings for earrings; the front and back of the elongated torso decorated with incised geometric patterns; fine polished dark brown patina with wear to surface indicative of cultural use and age.
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