BAMANA FIGURATIVE IRON STAFF, MALI

Michael Oliver, New York
Robert Rubin, New York, acquired from the above on May 23, 1983

National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., A Human Ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture, April 29 - June 15, 1986; additional venue:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, August 20, 1986 - March 1, 1987
Museum for African Art, New York, Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali, September 13, 2001 - May 19, 2002; additional venue:
Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Bamana: Afrikanische Kunst aus Mali, September 9 - December 9, 2001

Kate Ezra, A Human ideal in African Art: Bamana Figurative Sculpture, Washington, D.C., 1986, p. 8, no. 2
Jean-Paul Colleyn (ed.), Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali, New York, 2001, p. 45, cat. 4

Good condition overall for an object of this type and age. One of the four curved pendulous element of missing as shown. Varied oxidized patina with traces of residue.
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