BARA, Iakora region, Madagascar, zebu milking scene, compose - Lot 342

BARA, Iakora region, Madagascar, zebu milking scene, composed of an adult bovine, its calf and two figures. One of the figures appears to be pumping milk while the other watches over the whole. Height: 30 cm. 30 cm, width 20 cm, wood, brown patina, broken, glued back on the base, signed on the back "Tongamana" This rare work, signed by the sculptor Tongamana, belongs to the realistic corpus of scenes of daily life produced in his Iakora workshop. It illustrates the central place of the zebu in the Malagasy economy and social rituals. Publication: Vaca Bruto. Du quotidien au sacré. Taureaux d'Afrique noire, Olivier Larroque, Martine Nougarède, Musée des Cultures Taurines, Nîmes, 2010, p. 150. Reproduced in color from the Guillaume Estévenon collection.