{"id":35033,"date":"2026-11-03T08:23:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/?page_id=35033"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:23:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T07:23:54","slug":"bamana-bambara-ci-wara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/bamana-bambara-ci-wara\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamana and Bambara: ci wara headdresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ci wara, ti wara and tyi wara are spellings encountered along this route. The collection retains Bambara as the cultural designation in these records; the guide also uses Bamana to connect them with the consulted literature. Original terms and their relationships have not been changed.<\/p>\n<p>The six chosen references include figures named male and female, alongside Bamako and S\u00e9gou style labels in the catalogue titles. These names are presented as documentary information. Comparing views and descriptions makes variations accessible without treating a style name as verified provenance.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Documented context<\/h2>\n<p>The Met links ci wara headdresses with accounts of the introduction of agriculture and with paired danced performances. It distinguishes sogoni koun as a related but separate tradition. Shared animal features or similar spellings are insufficient to identify every headdress in the same way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/711020\" rel=\"noopener\">The Metropolitan Museum of Art \u00b7 Ci wara headdress<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/312373\" rel=\"noopener\">The Metropolitan Museum of Art \u00b7 Sogoni koun headdress<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Reading the catalogue<\/h2>\n<p class=\"document-attribution\">Original historical document in Spanish<\/p>\n<blockquote lang=\"es\">\n<p>Tyi wara, ty o ti wara, chy, ci o cy wara son m\u00faltiples los nombres empleados para nombrar la m\u00e1scara cimera m\u00e1s conocida de los Bambara.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"small\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/coleccion\/ty-wara-macho-bamako-style-mfg-30\/\">Jes\u00fas Arrimadas Saavedra \u00b7 original catalogue \u00b7 MFG-30<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">This quotation retains the archive\u2019s wording. Editorial context and comparative sources do not certify the objects\u2019 attribution, age or provenance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ci wara, ti wara and tyi wara are spellings encountered along this route. The collection retains Bambara as the cultural designation in these records; the guide also uses Bamana to connect them with the consulted literature. Original terms and their relationships have not been changed. The six chosen references include figures named male and female, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35033","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35063,"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35033\/revisions\/35063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artedeafrica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}