Editorial“Boli” (2014), a Bamana power figure wrapped protectively in fabric on display in Theaster Gates’s exhibition “Young Lords and Their Traces” at the New Museum in New York, Nov. 8, 2022. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
Editorial“Boli” (2014), a Bamana power figure wrapped protectively in fabric on display in Theaster Gates’s exhibition “Young Lords and Their Traces” at the New Museum in New York, Nov. 8, 2022. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
Editorial“The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria,” by Jusepe de Ribera, 1648, center back, with “Gwandansu,” 15th–20th century, by a Bamana artist from Mali, in the foreground, on display in “The African Origin of Civilization” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Dec. 28, 2021. (Seth Caplan/The New York Times)
Editorialantelope head crest for Ci Wara association, Bamana people, 20th century, wood, metal, glass, shell, fiber, pigment, 33-3/4 x 7-3/4 x 2-3/4 in., African Art.
Editorialantelope head crest for Ci Wara association, Bamana people, 20th century, wood, metal, glass, shells, fiber, pigment, 36-1/2 x 10 x 3-1/2 in., African Art.
EditorialHead of a Hobbyhorse, late 1800s-early 1900s. Western Sudan, Mali, Bamana, late 19th-early 20th century. Wood, metal; overall: 40.7 cm (16 in.).