Winter Bruneaf IV, 22-26/01/2014

January 8, 2014
Winter Bruneaf IV, 22-26/01/2014

The catalogue of the next Winter BRUNEAF is online.

 

My favourite object is the Ubangi headdress below (offered by Pierre Loos). Similar headdresses are illustrated on a famous painting by Alexandre Iaocovleff (also illustrated below – La Gan’za. Danse d’initiation, 1926). The sharp points of these rare headdresses are usually interpreted as symbols for phalluses. A similar example is published in Grootaerts’ magnus opus Ubangi (p. 239, #5.4).

 

Ubangi gaza headdress Bruneaf Loos Ameloot

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Bruno Claessens

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