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Dan-Guere Spoon wakemia or wunkirmian

Dan-Guere peoples, Sierra Leone

circa 1900

Height: 42 cm – Width: 10 cm – Depth: 5 cm

Wood

A type of spoon given to particularly deserving women in the community as a reward for their generosity, hospitality and culinary skills. Among the known corpus, this spoon presents a rare balance and sculptural suppleness, testifying to the great skill of the artist who produced it.

Provenance

Rodier Collection, Paris
Jean-Claude Bellier, Paris
De Quay-Lombrail, Paris, 21 June 1995, Lot 13
Philippe Guimiot, Brussels
Private Collection, USA (acquired from the above, 1995)

Publication(s)

Bernard de Grunne, Hans Himmelheber and Eberhard Fischer, La danse des cuillères Dan Dancing with spoons, Maastricht, 2019, P.85 n°32