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Descubra la tasación y los precios de esta y más obras de arte africano en Africartmarket. Big Board-Shaped Female Mask Bedu - Côte D'Ivoire, Nafana



Descripción : wood, polychrome paint, plant fibre strings, min. dam., traces of insect caused damage, cracks, paint rubbed off. The Nafana are an ethnic group belonging to the so-called Senufo Cluster, living in the border land between the Ivory Coast and Ghana. A now defunct prototype of bedu was encountered in 1889, called sakrobundi, the cult was suppressed for apparent exploitation of villagers and went underground. The bedu cult when it appeared about 1930, dealt with positive issues - such as human fertility, prevention of epidemics and internal social control - and was thus apparently tolerable to the colonial administrators. Bedu masks appear as male and female pairs, the males often having large, incurving horns above the facial plank. Maskers come out principally in the evening during the zarau festival, dancing gracefully (the female) or brusquely (the male) and touching women and children to bestow curative and fertilizing powers on them. These performances bless and purify the community. Continent: Africa
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Sobre el lote Lote N° 217
Título : Big Board-Shaped Female Mask Bedu - Côte D'Ivoire, Nafana
Talla : H: 199 cm, H: 78,3 inch
Procedencia : French Private Collection
Literature : Kreamer, Christine Mullen, African Vision, Washington 2007, p. 62, ill. 22
Condition report : See description
Zemanek-Muenster, subastador, Würzburg, DE 🔓Sin tarjeta de crédito.
Título de venta : 88th Tribal Art Auction
Fecha de la venta : 10/03/2018 🔓Sin tarjeta de crédito.
Referencia de la subasta : Live Sale

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