Description
A female Ciwara of the Central Segou region, in the original condition with the basket-attachment for the dancer, decorated with four rows of cowrie shells, the mother and child sculpturte partly in open work is covered with metal-sheets, made of old tea-boxes.
Provenance: Daba Diarra, Segou, Mali
Wolfgang Jaenicke Private Collection, Berlin, Germany
Video clip on Youtube “Ci Wara Dance Ceremon
and its Western transformation”
by Wolfgang Jaenicke, tribalartforum
Video Clip on Youtube” Daba Diara with a song of Blo Diara”
Wolfgang-Jaenicke Blogspot, Daba Diara, Provenienz und Art des Holzes von Afrikanischen Skulturen, 26. März 2006
Height: 94 cm
Weight: 1,41 kg
