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Bronze Buffalo in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2020


Buffalo
9th–14th century
Middle Niger civilization
Object Details
Title: Buffalo
Date: 9th–14th century
Geography: Mali
Culture: Middle Niger civilization
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: H. 9 × W. 5 × D. 13 1/2 in. (22.9 × 12.7 × 34.3 cm) (without stand)
Classification: Metalwork-Sculpture
Credit Line: Private Collection
The bush buffalo figures notably in an essential episode of the Sunjata epic in which Kamissa, a shape-shifting sorceress from the land of Dô, transforms herself into a Buffalo Woman. Within the context of Mande symbolism and legend, any leader wishing to establish his authority and power over a landscape or waterway had to enter into a contract agreement with its guardian spirit, or baafaro, a composite water animal.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/765619
9th–14th century
Middle Niger civilization
Object Details
Title: Buffalo
Date: 9th–14th century
Geography: Mali
Culture: Middle Niger civilization
Medium: Bronze
Dimensions: H. 9 × W. 5 × D. 13 1/2 in. (22.9 × 12.7 × 34.3 cm) (without stand)
Classification: Metalwork-Sculpture
Credit Line: Private Collection
The bush buffalo figures notably in an essential episode of the Sunjata epic in which Kamissa, a shape-shifting sorceress from the land of Dô, transforms herself into a Buffalo Woman. Within the context of Mande symbolism and legend, any leader wishing to establish his authority and power over a landscape or waterway had to enter into a contract agreement with its guardian spirit, or baafaro, a composite water animal.
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/765619
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