Kurumba, Burkina Faso: A typical, old antelope dance crest, painted.
A large, old dance crest, known as ‘Adone’, of the Kurumba in northern Burkina Faso. Carved of hard, heavy wood in the form of an antelope (head, horns and neck) and with characteristic, geometric motives of triangles, stripes, lines and dots painted black, white, blue and red. The antelope ‘Adone’ is an important protective figure in the origin myths of most of the clans of the Kurumba. It appears in dances at burials and in the honouring of ancestors. This Kurumba antelope is an old piece, with good usage patina and age-related loss of colour. An older crack, to the lower right, shows remains of an old original repair (glued with tree resin and sand). H: 111 cm. First third of the 20th century. (ME)
Provenance: Swiss Private Collection.
Lit.: 'Man and his Vision’, by Esther A. Dagan, figs. 42, 43, 44; 'Encyclopedia of African Art and Culture' by K.-F. Schädler, ill. p. 357.
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
02.11.2015 - 14:00
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EUR 800.-
Kurumba, Burkina Faso: A typical, old antelope dance crest, painted.
A large, old dance crest, known as ‘Adone’, of the Kurumba in northern Burkina Faso. Carved of hard, heavy wood in the form of an antelope (head, horns and neck) and with characteristic, geometric motives of triangles, stripes, lines and dots painted black, white, blue and red. The antelope ‘Adone’ is an important protective figure in the origin myths of most of the clans of the Kurumba. It appears in dances at burials and in the honouring of ancestors. This Kurumba antelope is an old piece, with good usage patina and age-related loss of colour. An older crack, to the lower right, shows remains of an old original repair (glued with tree resin and sand). H: 111 cm. First third of the 20th century. (ME)
Provenance: Swiss Private Collection.
Lit.: 'Man and his Vision’, by Esther A. Dagan, figs. 42, 43, 44; 'Encyclopedia of African Art and Culture' by K.-F. Schädler, ill. p. 357.
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Tribal Art |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 02.11.2015 - 14:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 28.10. - 02.11.2015 |