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Descrizione : standing on a circular base, with oval feet and incised toes beneath slender legs with shelflike buttocks at the back, and tapering to an elongated attenuated torso with conical breasts beneath rounded shoulders, and the arms held at the back and terminating in the hands touching, all beneath an elongated neck composed of a stack of numerous irregular rings representing the fat of the neck beneath a spherical head with diminutive face including a raised incised upturned mouth beneath a triangular nose framed by downcast eyes, the oversized scrolling ears carved low on the head, and wearing an elaborate coiffure deeply incised in numerous transverse and backswept sections, fine and varied dark brown to black patina. height 35 in. (88.9 cm.) Provenance: Pace Gallery, New York, 1981 This large and delicately carved Mende female belongs to a group of exceptional large scale figures. These female figures, like the Sowei masks, reflect the Mende ideals of womanhood and beauty in their elegant hair style, small features and neck rolls. According to Glasgow, Art of the Mende from Sierra Leone, 24, the sculptures '.. are reputedly used by women diviners of the Yassi society. The Yassi society, as reported by travellers at the end of the last century, was a secret society common to both the Mende and Sherbro...Mende people had a great faith in the healing properties of Yassi medicines and in pronunciation delivered by Yassi officials. Yassi medicine was kept in a village hut ordinary in construction but disguised by spots on the exterior. Within, partitioned off by mats, was kept the Yassi medicine, and placed beside it was a Minsereh. The proximity was important to that the figure which was consulted by the people on various matters, could transmit the magic of the medicine with which it was in communication. These figures were already described by Volz in 1907 and by Alldridge in 1901. This Mende figure is part of the group which were undoubtedly carved before the turn of the present century. For comparison see Staub in Historishes Museum Bern, 1935, volume 15, page 43, Von Sydow, Afrikanische Plastik, 1954: 159, 4B, Heydrick and Frokrich, Plastik der Primitiven, 1954: 12-13, Koln, Exotische Kunst, 1971: number 99, museum numbers 18066 and 18067, Fagg, Tribes and Forms in African Art, 1965: number 7.
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