Baga
Model Canoe Headdress (a-Bil-ña-Tshol)
Baga, 1900-1932
Scroll
Baga
Model Canoe Headdress (a-Bil-ña-Tshol)
Baga, 1900-1932
Physical Qualities
Wood, polychrome, pitch, 199 L x 23 H x 7 W cm.
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of Charles W. Newhall III, Owings Mills, Maryland
Object Number
2001.287
In the form of a flat board with extensions at both ends: a spiral at one end (bow) and a rectangular solid at the other end (stern); with six model houses on top; six blocks of geometric designs on each side.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2001; Sotheby's, New York; ex an American collector; ex Jacques Boussard, Paris; ex Jacqueline and Maurice Nicaud, Paris, collected in Guinea c. 1954
"ART OF THE BAGA: A DRAMA OF CULTURAL REINVENTION," Museum for African Art, New York, and The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1996-1997.
Frederick John Lamp, "See the Music Hear the Dance: Rethinking African Art at the Baltimore Museum of Art." New York: Prestel, 2003, p.164-165, ill.
'New Acquisitions on View,' 'BMA Today,' November/December 2001, p.8, ill.
