10 Mai 1967

Malick Sidibé

1967

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Pair of twin figures, one male and one female, of carved wood, each with an elaborate coiffure bathed in blue pigments, with scarification on the face, wearing traditional ornaments, the female figure additionally with a necklace of red beads and a waistlet of blue beads.
Cast silver band bracelet, open at underside of wrist, inlaid with ebony; engraved and punched linear and repeating geometric patterns
Solid cast-bronze of Osiris with base, standing mummiform figure, hands grasping hook and flail, the crown of Upper Egypt flanked with feathers.
Brown, ovoid vessel indents deeply and tall neck flares outward. Shoulder and mid-section have band of roulette pattern; single vertical line bisects body of vessel with two raised bumps on either side of line.