Mud-Dyed Painting, Titled "La Terre/Si Koloma"
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Sep 2001
label: Collection Date
content: 1992
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Mary Jo Arnoldi
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: UNPRIMED COTTON, RECTANGULAR CANVAS HAS LIGHT-GREEN BORDER. MAIN DESIGN CONSISTS OF LIGHT-BROWN BACKGROUND W/ BROWN-BLACK WAVES AT BOTTOM & WHITE SPLOTCHES. RISING FROM WAVELIKE AREA IS A BROWN CROOK-SHAPED SYMBOL. ACCORDING TO DR. MARY JO ARNOLDI, CURATOR OF AFRICAN ETHNOLOGY, NMNH, THE CROOK-LIKE SYMBOL IS CALLED "SI KOLOMA" AND MEANS THE EARTH. IT IS ONE OF THE SIGN OF THE KOMO, MEN'S INITIATION ASSOCIATION AMONG BAMANA PEOPLES IN MALI. THE SIGN ITSELF IS ASSOCIATED WITH YOUNG UNCIRCUMCIZED BOYS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE NTOMO BOYS ASSOCIATION. REFERENCE: LES FONDEMENTS DE LA SOCIETE D'INITIATIION DU KOMO BY GERMAINE DIETERLEN AND YOUSSOUF CISSE, PARIS: MOUTON & COMPANY, 1972. THE ARTIST GRADUATED FROM MALI'S INSTITUT NATIONAL DES ARTS AND TAUGHT ART IN HIGH SCHOOLS. ESTABLISHED A CAREER AS A SOLE ARTIST IN 1991. HAD MANY EXHIBITS IN MALI & EUROPE. FOUNDED THE ASSOCIATION NATIONALE DES ARTISTS DU MALI, A PROFESSIONAL ARTISTS ORGANIZATION. HE HAS USED THE MUD-DYE TECHNIQUE IN HIS WORKS SINCE THE EARLY 1980'S.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Bamako, Mali, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Malian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416175
label: USNM Number
content: E428417-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 72 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 56 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 1 cm