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NGKPWE secret society, Bangwa people - West Cameroon
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Bronze crest NGKPWE secret society, Bangwa people - West Cameroon Wood, vegetable fibers, raffia 40 x 27 x 25 cm CAMEROON - BRONZE CREST

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Bronze crest NGKPWE secret society, Bangwa people - West Cameroon Wood, vegetable fibers, raffia 40 x 27 x 25 cm CAMEROON - BRONZE CREST

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Estim. 8 000 - 12 000 EUR

A Ci-Wara dance crest depicting an antelope and an anteater. We won't dwell too much here on the traditional aspects surrounding these famous sculptures, Ci-Wara dance crests, the Jo cult and the secret society of the same name, also known as Tyi-Wara. The Tyi-Wara society is one of the intermediary societies after initiation, and is more open and inclusive than other secret societies, integrating women and allowing children to join as well, particularly as the Tyi-Wara society deals mainly with agriculture and much of the farm work is also done by women. It is the particular creative genius of an artist who is the focus of our attention here, and who must be admired, just as he was the focus of Jean Roudillon's interest in preserving this rare work in particular. It is in the former collection of Gaston De Havenon, well known for his taste and collection of Ci-Wara crests, that we find the only other Ci-Wara crest by the same hand (or workshop), published many times since, that is comparable to this one. This work obviously caught the attention of another great connoisseur and connoisseur, forever attached to the history of knowledge of the Bambara world, and at the origin of a unique comparative study of these extraordinary sculptures that are the Ci-Wara cimers, in the person of Dominique Zahan, who identified it under the drawing referenced IM133 in his essential work: Antilopes Du Soleil. The various animals, bearers of numerous symbols, which inspire the artist in his feat of sculpting a Ci-Wara crest, are here probably more than two, and if the Ci-Wara crest formerly in the Gaston De Havenon collection is described in a book as an antelope (black hippotrague) and an anteater, the horns of the Ci-Wara crest from the Jean Roudillon Collection, stretched like swords, are more likely those of the oryx, which disappeared from Mali decades ago. Bambara, Mali Wood, visible missing parts, accidents and restorations to the horns (broken and glued), original parts and restoration of a buckle (in part), beautiful old patina. H. 63 cm See for the other Tyi-wara crest formerly in the G. De Havenon collection in: Antilopes Du Soleil, Arts et Rites Agraires d'Afrique Noire, Dominique Zahan, Ed. A. Schendl, Wien 1980 ref. IM 133 plate 39, and p. 217 n° 201 in: Bamana The Art of Existence in Mali, Jean Paul Colleyn, Ed. Museum for African Art NY 2001. Provenance : Jean Roudillon Collection

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SENOUFO, Ivory Coast. Wood, crusty patina, fibers. Rectangular crest with an anthropomorphic motif with raised arms in the center. It was used during the "Kwonro" ceremony of the Poro initiation society. Height: 50 cm

DESCHAMPS, N. - Les Sociétés Secrètes et la société ou Philisophie de l'Histoire contemporaine. 3rd ed. with an introduction on the action of secret societies in the 19th century by M. Claudio Jannet. Avignon, Seguin Frères, 1880-1881. 3 vol. in-8, faux-titre with cut-out part replaced, red half-chag. with ornate spine.

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