Ty Wara Female, Segou Style
Bambara · Mali
Reference: MFG-31
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- Material
- Wood and pigments.
Ty wara Guzmu formed pot a female antelope on a helmet of braided reeds. The tail forms an oval circle with a stick giving the appearance…
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Ty wara Guzmu formed pot a female antelope on a helmet of braided reeds. The tail forms an oval circle with a stick giving the appearance of a number nine. Two smaller forward-facing horns appear on the bodies of the hypothragus.
Ci or Ty Wara means "wild animal". It is the emblem of the "tons", social group destined for agricultural work. This brotherhood brings together young boys and girls in the same age class. The aim of society is to help the most disadvantaged in the work of the camps. On the occasion of these works appeared a pair of dancers wearing the masks Ty Wara, male and female, preceded by a sacrificer with a fetish. The masks ran through the fields imitating the jumps of the hypothragous antelope to which they represented, in order to chase away the nyama, evil effluxes of the place, and detect any danger or evil genius capable of stealing the soul from cultivated plants or the vital force of seeds.
This mask is composed of two parts, body with neck and head, joined by strips of raffia and sometimes animal skin, and two staples. Time skate.
Further technical information
- Width
- 69 cm
- Attributed period
- Mid-century XX or earlier.
Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.
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