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Description : Rare Bamana Antelope Headdress, Mali sogonikun Wood with encrusted black patina, metal, fiber Height 23 1/2in (59.7cm) Provenance Morton Dimondstein, Los Angeles Cecilia and Irwin Smiley Collection, New York California Private Collection According to Dominique Zahan, sogonikun headdresses 'exhibit intentional exaggerations and anatomical modifications not found in their paradigms, which confer significant abstractive qualities on them. Their creators did not intend for them to be simply reproductions of natural models, but also vehicles for conveying a number of moral, religious, and intellectual messages. Because of their abstract qualities, these sculptures achieve a distance from their original animal paradigms and a proximity to the messages they are intended to carry.' (Imperato, Pascal James, Spirits of the Red Savanna: Art and Culture of the Bamana People of Mali, Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, New York, 2022, p. 153) There are currently only five known zigzag headdresses to exist, including the work presented here: one from the Collection of William Rubin who acquired it from Charles Ratton, sold at Sotheby's, New York, 11 May 2012, lot 69; a second collected by Leo Frobenius now in the Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg (inv. no. 11.1.469); a third from the Gaston de Havenon Collection, Museum of African Art, New York, 1971, fig. 59); and a fourth from the Henri Kamer Gallery, illustrated in Bambara Sculpture of Western Sudan by Robert Goldwater, The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, fig. 112. For further information on this lot please visit the website
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